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The Internal Revenue Service issued final regulations Thursday lowering the initial enrollment and renewal of enrollment user fees for enrolled agents and enrolled retirement plan agents, and separating the enrolled retirement plan agent user fees from the enrolled agent user fees.

A House committee has passed two bills that would prohibit people with seriously delinquent tax debts from receiving federal contracts or grants or serving as federal employees.

A bipartisan pair of senators has introduced a bill that would require most employers to file their W-2 forms electronically.

A new initiative at the Internal Revenue Service aimed at cracking down on high-income taxpayers with assets abroad has only managed to audit 13 returns since it was set up a year and a half ago.

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The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing Wednesday on how the Tax Code’s burdens on individuals demonstrate the need for comprehensive tax reform.

President Obama outlined his plan for reducing the budget deficit by $4 trillion in the next 12 years during a speech Wednesday in which he said taxes would need to be raised on the wealthy and itemized deductions limited.

The eleventh-hour budget deal struck by the White House with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders to avert a government shutdown over the weekend depends to a large extent upon some accounting sleight of hand to achieve the claim of $38 billion in spending cuts.

A new study from Ernst & Young examines the impact on flow-through businesses of the tax reform proposals, and cautions against lowering corporate tax rates at the expense of S Corporations.