This seems like an emotional manipulation piece. It quotes various people saying various things, but there's literally nothing that indicates that any accusations of foul play are actually factually true.<p>Most damning: "Rettig said he could not comment on the article directly or on the tax situation of any individual. Federal employees can face prison time for improperly releasing private taxpayer data."<p>As for an occasional 0% tax rate: this is possible if you have enough capital losses on paper one year to offset whatever you may have owed otherwise. This could be from a variety of mechanisms, e.g. say you acquired 100 shares at $5 each 10 years ago, then another 10 at $50 2 years ago. If the shares are worth $48 now, the total portfolio is worth $5280. If you sell any 1 share you get $48 in cash, but _which_ share you sell matters for tax purposes: if you sell one you bought for $50, you incurred a $2 loss, even though you've spent $1000 in total to buy the shares and are now sitting on over $5000 dollars worth of shares (a five-fold increase in wealth).