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The service's alternative dispute resolution programs can be faster and cheaper than the usual appeals process, but their use fell by two-thirds over the past decade.

A GAO report has several suggestions for decreasing the difference between taxes owned and taxes paid.

The Internal Revenue Service recently suspended a half dozen of its modernization programs, including two deemed essential to its plans for replacing its aging systems.

The Internal Revenue Service could be doing more to detect and deter promoters of abusive tax schemes, according to a new report.

The average effective tax rate of profitable large corporations fell from 16% in 2014 to 9% in 2018 after passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

A combination of direct government funding and tax breaks for nonprofit news organizations could help support public interest journalism.

The agency plans to return to pre-pandemic levels of service next filing season.

The Government Accountability Office wants the agency to use the extra $80 billion it's getting from Congress to improve compliance.

Small business owners have been hampered by complicated tax forms and processes that kept them from claiming pandemic-related tax credits and payroll tax deferrals.

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