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The official start date of tax season for individual taxpayers will be on Jan. 29, but the Internal Revenue Service plans to accept business tax returns as soon as Jan. 16.

Response times for tax professionals are also a problem, according to the National Taxpayer Advocate's Annual Report to Congress.

The agency plans to restrict access to a system that provides borrower tax returns to mortgage lenders beginning June 30. Left out of the loop, small-business lenders say getting credit to borrowers will become more difficult as a result.

Jack Fisher, 71, pioneered an industry that gave inflated tax deductions to syndicates of investors who promised not to develop land.

New year, new priorities; advisory service roadblocks; GM sues Frisco; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The Internal Revenue Service is cautioning tax pros about an uptick it's already starting to see this year.

Financial advisors, tax professionals and their customers can recoup 30% of the cost through credits for qualified upgrades to their residences.

The agency is anticipating over 128.7 million individual tax returns by the April 15, 2024, tax deadline.

The deal includes speeding up $10 billion in cuts to the Internal Revenue Service.

NCCPAP's Frank Sands shares the major issues that tax pros should be paying attention to in the run up to April 15.

The Internal Revenue Service will be hosting a Tax Professional Awareness Week starting Monday, Jan. 8.

The Internal Revenue Service is extending the period for dealers and sellers of so-called "clean" vehicles such as electric cars to submit time-of-sale reports by a few days to qualify for tax credits.

The contract will provide development support to two mission-critical systems at the agency.

BOI reporting opens; Offender of the Year; state extensions; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

J. Russell George, the longtime Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, died Monday after an unspecified prolonged illness.

The double taxation treaty between the U.S. and Hungary has been terminated as of Monday.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to make improvements to protect the health and safety of employees working at an underground file storage site, where the perils include falling rocks and broken ladders.

The Internal Revenue Service and Treasury plan to propose regulations on a requirement for a product identification number, and they're asking for comments ahead of time on the PIN requirement.

The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service issued guidance for producers of clean electricity and other forms of renewable energy if they begin constructing projects next year that fall short of the necessary requirements for domestically manufactured components.

Here's a list of Financial Planning's most important stories in the past year involving the vexing array of complexities with paying Uncle Sam.