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The Affordable Care Act requires that in 2014 all Americans must have qualified health insurance or face a Shared Responsibility Payment.

The Internal Revenue Service rehired hundreds of former employees with prior conduct or performance issues, including employees who failed to file their taxes, falsified official forms and misused IRS property, according to a new report.

UBS Group AG is being investigated by the U.S. over whether it helped Americans evade taxes by improperly using securities that let owners conceal their identity, three people familiar with the matter said.

The Internal Revenue Service has launched a new, online public directory of tax return preparers as part of its effort to promote its Annual Filing Season Program for testing and continuing education of tax preparers on a voluntary basis.

Republican lawmakers are doing something surprising with President Barack Obama’s proposal to tax U.S. companies’ overseas profits. They’re calling it constructive.

The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee voted to revive and permanently extend six lapsed tax breaks that would help small businesses and people who make charitable contributions.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

The U.S. Treasury Department and the Department of Education are working with H&R Block and Intuit this tax season to raise awareness of the income-based repayment options for federal student loan borrowers.

The Internal Revenue Service did not always respond with accurate, timely information to requests from law enforcement to help identity theft victims, according to a new report.

Families with domestic employees struggle with all the state and federal tax obligations and often make inadvertent mistakes that can become very expensive and frustrating.