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Fairness at last for vets; troublesome forms; ‘non-employee withholding;’ and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The Internal Revenue Service warned taxpayers Tuesday to beware of a quickly proliferating scam involving erroneous tax refunds being deposited in their bank accounts, after a data breach on their tax preparers' computers gives them access to sensitive client information.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department announced changes Tuesday in the procedures for changing the accounting period of foreign corporations owned by U.S. shareholders subject to the transition tax under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

The Trump administration’s fiscal year 2019 budget proposal includes increasing oversight of paid tax preparers along with more authority for the Internal Revenue Service.

IRS attorneys clear the way for automatic first-time penalty abatement.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to do more to prevent inactive Employer Identification Numbers from being used to commit business identity theft and tax fraud, according to a new government report.

Help the IRS debunk a handful of taxpayer misconceptions for this filing season.

The Internal Revenue Service is giving homeowners whose homes were damaged by deteriorating concrete foundations more time on a safe harbor it issued last year.

The Internal Revenue Service, fresh off its success in uncovering U.S. assets hidden in Swiss banks, has assigned elite criminal agents to investigate whether Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are being used to cheat the taxman.

The American Institute of CPAs is asking the Internal Revenue Service to provide relief from tax penalties to taxpayers who are required for the first time to file information returns related to Controlled Foreign Corporations.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will nominate California tax attorney Charles “Chuck” Rettig to lead the Internal Revenue Service as it puts the Republican tax overhaul into practice.

The Internal Revenue Service said Thursday it saw dramatic declines in tax-related identity theft last year, thanks to the effort of the Security Summit, which brings together the IRS with state tax authorities and the tax industry.

The Internal Revenue Service is making progress on improving its authentication processes after a string of data breaches on some of its e-Services and online apps, but some of the improvements haven’t been completely implemented, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service is expected to refund disabled veterans an estimated $78 million that was wrongly withheld from their disability severance pay.

That ain’t hay; Minnesota wins Super Bowl; driving preparers crazy; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

President Donald Trump plans to nominate California tax attorney Charles “Chuck” Rettig to head the Internal Revenue Service as it implements the nation’s tax code revamp, according to a person familiar with the deliberations.

The Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday that fees multinational business taxpayers pay to request a unilateral or bilateral advance pricing agreement will be increasing.

The Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 won’t affect the tax year 2018 dollar limitations for retirement plans the IRS had announced last year.

The Internal Revenue Service’s processes for assigning Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers don’t always manage to identify fraudulent or incomplete applications, according to a new report.

If exploiting a tax loophole is as much an art as a science, then the tax planning profession is poised for a creative renaissance.