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The IRS system will be down for most of the morning for routine maintenance.

Some professionals are predicting that the IRS will start looking more closely at the willful versus nonwillful standard in filing the form late or incorrectly. 

Every year without fail, cybercriminals take advantage of tax season to steal money from innocent people trying to be good citizens.

The agency had scaled back audits of all taxpayers between 2010 and 2019, with the total audit rate falling to 0.25% from 0.9%.

The service is largely blaming third-party promoters, but it's putting some of the burden of fixing the problem on tax preparers.

The IRS did not meet a requirement under the Taxpayer First Act to create an online system for processing business transcript requests by January 2023, according to a new report.

While the court's ruling in Bittner v. U.S. is considered taxpayer-favorable, there are issues to consider as you dig into the findings.

The IRS notified the pharmaceutical giant that it owed $3.6 billion for the 2010-2012, and demanded $5.1 billion more for 2013-2015.

E-help with CP notices; low-cost compliance; still learning from Eisenhower; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

Shady operators and questionable calculators make the Employee Retention Credit a risky area for practitioners.

The service provided some leeway on foreign income reporting requirements to people who needed to flee Ukraine, China, Belarus, Iraq, Ethiopia and Mali.

The new Internal Revenue Service commissioner, Danny Werfel, got right to work Monday only days after being confirmed by the Senate.

When a fraudster pretends to be a government entity as part of an email phishing scheme, they typically choose the IRS.

The service has increased its scanning of Forms 940 twentyfold in 2023.

The Senate voted to confirm Daniel Werfel as the new Internal Revenue Service commissioner with bipartisan support.

The senator fired the latest salvo in a long-running dispute with the White House over implementation of Inflation Reduction Act provisions he authored.

The changing CPA exam; evils of voicemail; CHIPS may fall; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

A look at how filing season is going, five weeks in.

Contributions to 401(k)s and IRAs now can reduce your 2022 taxes soon due this filing season. Here's what advisors, many of whom can themselves benefit, need to know.

The service is planning to release a third-party study on the possibility of setting up its own free tax-filing system.