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Stress and other disasters; federal deductions and income segregation; Olson’s retirement; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The Treasury and the service are seeking public comments on the proposal.

IRS guidance for on deductions for passthrough entities answers many questions — but raises still others

The government shutdown and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will continue to cause friction throughout tax season.

The head of the Taxpayer Advocate Service at the IRS for 18 years will be retiring at the end of July.

Those who file their 2018 return and pay any tax due by April 15 can avoid the estimated tax penalty.

The average tax refund increased 1.3 percent compared to last year, but the total value of those checks and the number of people receiving the payments continued to drop steadily in the first filing season under the new tax law.

Tax refunds in the U.S. jumped 17 percent week over week, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said.

A letter from a senior official to Senate Democrats throws cold water on any extra relief for taxpayers.

The Senate voted Wednesday to confirm California attorney Michael J. Desmond as chief counsel for the Internal Revenue Service.

Testifying before the service, institute officials also addressed the calculation of adjusted taxable income and the treatment of partnership income.

Using LinkedIn right; this year’s sales-tax holidays; alternative methods of apportionment; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

Utilizing different types of workers can bring different types of regulatory and tax challenges.

Average tax refunds are down so far in the first filing season under President Trump’s tax overhaul, prompting the Treasury Department to caution that the data contain aberrations and could be misleading.

PricewaterhouseCoopers is supporting calls from the Institute and lawmakers who are asking to lower the penalty threshold for taxpayers.

The U.S. charged an Internal Revenue Service analyst with illegally disclosing suspicious activity reports related to the private banking information of Trump's former lawyer.

The Institute has some recommendations about ways to improve the proposed regulations for implementing limitations under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

A pair of leaders on the House Ways and Means Committee are asking whether the IRS did enough testing and why the results haven't been released to the public.

The price of SALT; raining in New Jersey; using cause-related marketing; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The Internal Revenue Service is being urged to focus more on improving self-employment tax compliance as the so-called “gig economy” continues to expand.