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A case heading to the high court this fall will help determine how vague prosecutors can be in tax cases.

The Internal Revenue Service has signed a contract with a company called Chainalysis that offers software for analyzing and tracking bitcoin transactions.

Hurricane Harvey victims in parts of Texas have until Jan. 31 to file certain individual and business tax returns and make certain tax payments, the IRS said Monday.

The Internal Revenue Service will be bringing back its IRS Data Retrieval Tool on October 1 for people applying for federal student aid.

The Internal Revenue Service sent an urgent warning Monday about a new phishing scheme in which a scam email purporting to originate from the IRS and the Federal Bureau of Investigation is actually part of a ransomware effort to take computer information hostage.

The cleanup goes on long after the storm has passed. Here’s how financial planners can provide advice for one of clients’ most expensive traumas.

There isn’t much evidence suggesting the implementation of a cost segregation study on a tax return, by itself, will trigger an IRS audit.

An NAEA survey reveals the most common reasons taxpayers receive CP2000 notices.

The American Institute of CPAs has sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service with three recommendations on the accounting method change procedures for business taxpayers.

The Internal Revenue Service has prevailed in U.S. Tax Court in a case involving an Arizona jewelry store business that received a tax break by insuring itself for millions of dollars, in part against the risk of terrorism.

Back to school; a possible bitcoin bubble; good uses for reverse audits; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

‘Refund locks’ would make taxpayer information useless to identity thieves.

Vacancies are available for several three-year terms.

A number of IRS services will be unavailable over the holiday.

The Internal Revenue Service revoked an unidentified hospital’s tax exemption in February for failing to conduct a community health needs assessment, in a sign of possible trouble for other nonprofit health care organizations.

This weekend’s outages for IRS e-Services have been postponed.

Repatriation wrinkles; PLR pricetags; state and local tax info; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

A group of five Republican members on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee wrote a letter Thursday to Internal Revenue Service commissioner John Koskinen urging the IRS to stop rehiring former employees who had previous conduct or performance issues.

The Internal Revenue Service spent the extra $290 million appropriated by Congress last year to improve taxpayer service and cybersecurity and safeguard against identity theft, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service could have collected over $1 million from federal contractors who owe back taxes if it included them in a special levy program, according to a new report.