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This will hurt a bit; death and taxes; millions in income, decades of not filing; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The IRS has sent out 3.3 percent fewer tax refunds so far this year, but the average refund size continues to track with prior years, according to IRS data released Thursday.

The board is giving companies an overview of some of the key areas it will be looking at during upcoming audit firm inspections.

2018 was a big year for payroll and digital privacy. We saw several global companies face scrutiny, and in some cases lawsuits, for selling and leaking user data.

When businesses fail to file on time, they can get hit with fines or other penalties.

The Treasury Department finalized the repeal Thursday of 296 obsolete or duplicative tax regulations in response to President Trump’s executive orders.

There has been no shortage of confusion as American taxpayers have started filing their returns for the first time under the 2017 tax overhaul.

The American Institute of CPAs has named Angela Newell, a national assurance partner at BDO USA’s Dallas office, as the new chair of the AICPA’s Financial Reporting Executive Committee, succeeding Crowe partner Jim Dolinar.

MoviePass’s parent company hit another bump Tuesday, acknowledging it lost track of how many paying customers the film-subscription service had on its books.

Regulators in some Asian countries are getting tougher on auditors after landmark defaults, in an increasingly high-stakes game as investors call for earlier warning signs amid expectations for debt failures to mount.