IRS

Is the IRS’s Examination Estate Tax Lien Group watching 30-year-old film classics? Apparently they are.

After every tax season, it’s tempting to do some spring cleaning, which often includes a massive dump of recently filed tax data.

The Internal Revenue Service issued a warning Thursday cautioning taxpayers and tax professionals about a new scam revolving around the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System, in which criminals are calling innocent taxpayers demanding they make an immediate tax payment through a prepaid debit card.

Asian-Americans and the EITC; trusting the IRS; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The American Institute of CPAs has written a letter to the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department asking them to postpone the effective date of the centralized partnership audit regime for one year until the end of 2018.

The Internal Revenue Service has supplemented its online tax account tool with some new self-service features for taxpayers and their preparers.

The Internal Revenue Service has released a revenue procedure that offers an easier way to get an extension of time to file a return to opt for portability of the deceased spousal unused exclusion amount.

General overpayments and underpayments remain at 4 percent.

The Internal Revenue Service is making strides in assisting victims of tax-related identity theft more promptly and making fewer errors on cases, thanks to a more centralized approach, according to a new government report.

Audit myths; credits and whistleblowers; details of reform; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The Internal Revenue Service has updated its online registration system for the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act to allow foreign financial institutions to renew their agreement with the IRS.

Tax pros have mixed feelings on the tax-related provisions of the House appropriations bill .

A federal district court has ruled in favor of tax preparers who filed a class-action lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over its right to charge fees for Preparer Tax Identification Numbers, and the IRS may need to refund hundreds of millions of dollars in fees collected each year.

Beginning June 15, taxpayers requesting letter rulings, closing agreements and certain other rulings from the IRS will need to make user fee payments electronically using the federal government’s Pay.gov system.

$4.5 billion in unpaid tax, penalties and interest due lurks in the Automated Non-Master File.

The Spring Statistics of Income Bulletin shows increases in income and tax returns filed.

Reasons to focus on complicated returns; 529 Day; in memory and in thanks; other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The Internal Revenue Service had to roll out a manual process last year to provide advance payments on Health Coverage Tax Credits every month to health plan administrators on behalf of displaced workers and retirees, but it mistakenly provided the tax credits for thousands of people who were old enough to qualify for Medicare.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has concerns about the Internal Revenue Service’s recently revived private debt collection program in light of the ongoing problem of scammers pretending to be IRS employees calling taxpayers to demand bogus tax debts be paid immediately.

Trump's budget aims to cut approximately $3.6 trillion in spending, in part from eligibility changes for the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit.