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Criminal Investigation veteran Damon Rowe will launch the new effort to fight the unscrupulous.

The super-wealthy can deploy sophisticated strategies to pass on billions of dollars to their descendants tax-free.

NCCPAP's Stephen Mankowski offers an inside look at the service's latest initiatives.

The AICPA is also urging the IRS to expand and clarify its cryptocurrency guidance.

New M&E regs; candidates and public transit; ID PINs?; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

Abeles and Hoffman adds four to ownership group; Lumsden McCormick promotes five to manager; and more personnel news.

Erin Collins, who formerly worked at KPMG and the IRS, will lead the Taxpayer Advocate Service.

Here’s hoping that fewer last-minute changes will make for easier filing.

Fraud and execs; IRS tries to net non-filers; marketing media; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The IRS also announced the 13`1 tax clinics that will be receiving $11.6 million in matching grants for 2020.

The Internal Revenue Service is confronting challenges with administering and ensuring compliance with the business provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, although it has made a considerable amount of progress in implementing them, according to a new government report.

The justices let stand an appeals ruling that precluded a tax refund to movie producers, deferring to an IRS regulation that ended the common-law mailbox rule for refund claims, even though Clarence Thomas reversed his position on an earlier case.

The Internal Revenue Service has released a set of proposed regulations for businesses to follow when deducting meals and entertainment, in response to the 2017 tax overhaul.

The Internal Revenue Service is getting set to unveil its proposed regulations for the reporting of unrelated business income for tax-exempt organizations.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department released guidance Friday to help farmers deal with a provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and reduce their taxes by leveraging a tax break for small businesses.

The American Institute of CPAs has asked the Internal Revenue Service for more guidance on a provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that imposes a 21 percent excise tax on tax-exempt organizations that pay over $1 million in compensation, or so-called “excess parachute payments,” to top executives.

The organization recommends more practitioner input on training, among other things.

The Internal Revenue Service provided guidance and a safe harbor Wednesday for businesses that claim carbon capture credits in an effort to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide.

Leaders from the service’s Criminal Investigation unit and tax authorities from Australia, the U.K., Canada and the Netherlands met in Australia this week to set priorities in the fight against international tax crimes.

Internal Revenue Service officials said Wednesday they will be visiting approximately 800 taxpayers who earn over $100,000 a year and haven’t filed one or more tax returns in prior years.