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The IRS is reminding taxpayers and tax pros that income tax returns aren't the only things that need to be in by next Tuesday.
April 13 -
Cybersecurity must remain a central concern as filing is increasingly digitized.
April 12 -
Technology may play a central role in helping the tax man get his due from cannabis companies.
April 12
Accounting Today -
Tax Day giveaways; a big scammer busted; Sec. 475(f) elections; Generation C; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.
April 11
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Some processes used by the Internal Revenue Service to ensure businesses comply with the Affordable Care Act’s employer shared responsibility provision didn’t work as they were supposed to, or they were delayed or canceled, according to a new government report.
April 10 -
A data breach in the Internal Revenue Service’s Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, tool, which the IRS was forced to shut down last month, may have affected up to 100,000 taxpayers.
April 10 -
The home stretch of tax season will see fraudsters’ biggest push – but cybersecurity expert Kevin O’Brien says that taxpayers and tax professionals accountants will still need to protect themselves after that.
April 10 -
The Internal Revenue Service saw a sharp drop-off in tax returns in the first half of filing season, according to a new report.
April 7 -
The Internal Revenue Service said Thursday it would offer toll-free telephone service for taxpayers on the last two Saturdays of tax season.
April 6 -
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen testified at a Senate hearing Thursday about tax season, a day after a group of House Republicans wrote to President Trump asking him to fire Koskinen.
April 6 -
Roads vs. taxes; stopgap budget planning; Obamacare’s good and bad; other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.
April 5
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Internal Revenue Service criminal investigators mainly pursued law-abiding citizens and businesses when seizing assets in civil forfeiture cases because they were easier to go after, according to a new government report.
April 4 -
The Internal Revenue Service is relaunching the much criticized private debt collection program this month after Congress required it to do so as part of legislation passed at the end of 2015.
April 4 -
The AICPA, NAEA, NATP, NCCPAP, NSA and others have combined to ask for improvements.
April 4 -
The Office of Professional Responsibility is trying to expand its authority over preparers – and running into opposition.
April 4
Accounting Today -
The Internal Revenue Service overpaid more than 600 employees approximately $4.2 million and underpaid over 900 employees an estimated $2.7 million because of incorrect calculations of manager salaries, according to a new report.
April 3 -
The IRS audited slightly more than 1 million returns of individuals in Fiscal Year 2016, down almost 16 percent from the prior year’s 1.2 million, according to the latest IRS Data Book.
April 2 -
A new report from the Government Accountability Office questions the usefulness of services such as identity monitoring, credit monitoring and identity theft insurance, particularly when it comes to safeguarding against tax refund fraud.
March 31 -
The Internal Revenue Service has seen a proliferation in the past 24 hours of a phishing email seeking to steal tax practitioners’ usernames and passwords for the IRS's online services.
March 31 -
The Internal Revenue Service has issued a notice explaining how small businesses can take advantage of a new option allowing them to apply a portion or all of their research credit against their payroll tax liability, instead of their income tax liability.
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