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Thanks to the lower threshold, the service expects to receive about 44 million 1099-Ks in 2024, up from about 14 million.
November 16 -
The Government Accountability Office called for Congress to pass blockchain regulation legislation to shore up the federal regulatory apparatus.
July 25 -
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.
May 31 -
A GAO report has several suggestions for decreasing the difference between taxes owned and taxes paid.
February 27 -
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.
February 7 -
The Internal Revenue Service could be doing more to detect and deter promoters of abusive tax schemes, according to a new report.
January 17 -
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.
January 13 -
A combination of direct government funding and tax breaks for nonprofit news organizations could help support public interest journalism.
January 5 -
The agency plans to return to pre-pandemic levels of service next filing season.
December 16 -
The Government Accountability Office wants the agency to use the extra $80 billion it's getting from Congress to improve compliance.
November 28 -
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.
August 3 -
Buyers’ criteria; EARN; marriage and accounting; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.
July 26
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The Internal Revenue Service is being urged to pilot test virtual visits with paid tax preparers through videoconferencing technology as a way to reduce the number of errors in claims for refundable tax credits in a new government report.
July 14 -
The IRS and politics — nothing new; AICPA priorities; new blog on the block; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.
July 12
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Over one-fourth of the nearly 1,700 cases were violations that usually led to employees being suspended, fired or resigning.
May 19 -
Congress gave billions of dollars in tax credits to employers, but now the IRS needs to step up its compliance efforts, according to a GAO report.
May 17 -
The Internal Revenue Service has been auditing fewer taxpayers since 2010, according to a new report, but audit rates have been plunging the most for higher-income taxpayers.
May 17 -
Only a tiny fraction of those who could file their taxes for free are actually accessing the no-cost program, according to a new watchdog report.
April 28 -
The service has been under pressure from Congress and accounting groups to perform better as another hectic tax season comes to a close.
April 11 -
The Employer-Provided Child Care Credit can save employers with eligible expenses more money in taxes than using a deduction alone, and it also helps employees, according to a new report.
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