"For far too long, we have relied on taxing our Great People using the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. "Through soft and pathetically weak Trade agreements, the American Economy has delivered growth and prosperity to ...

The parallel with the Internal Revenue Service is seen as a signal of the president-elect’s determination to enact sweeping import duties

President-elect Trump on Tuesday said he wanted to create an “External Revenue Service” to collect tariffs and other revenue from foreign countries, comparing it to Internal Revenue

Trump declared next Monday will be the “birth date” of the IRS counterpart as tariffs become a core storyline at the start of his second term.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will create a new department called the External Revenue Service "to collect tariffs, duties, and all revenue" from foreign sources. Trump said in a social media post he would create the department on Jan.