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Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is calling on Congress to allow the Internal Revenue Service to give the Department of Education information on the income of student loan borrowers, warning that student loan applicants are misrepresenting their income and family size to qualify for reduced payment plans.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to improve its oversight of third-party cybersecurity practices by tax preparers and tax software providers, according to a new government report.

A new program requiring the IRS to hire collection agencies is falling far short of its goals and putting taxpayers at risk of falling prey to scammers.

Low-income and minority taxpayers were more likely to use extra-fee tax preparation offerings like refund advances and refund transfers, according to a new report Friday from the Government Accountability Office, and tax preparers often didn’t present them with information about the fees ahead of time.

The Internal Revenue Service is having trouble dealing with the information it’s getting from foreign banks about U.S. taxpayer assets under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act because of problems with the data and various mismatches, according to a new government report.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to do a better job of managing its employees in the wake of budget cuts that have forced the IRS to severely reduce tax audits, or else it could be putting its mission at risk, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to be more timely and transparent in resolving tax appeal cases, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office.

The vision is the same for how the agency hopes to interact with taxpayers, but the name is going away.

The Internal Revenue Service improved its customer service this past tax season, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office, despite the challenges of responding to inquiries about the recently passed tax overhaul.

The Internal Revenue Service could do more to strengthen its tax enforcement efforts by further leveraging the Return Review Program to catch fraudulent tax returns, according to a new report.