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The Office of Professional Responsibility is trying to expand its authority over preparers – and running into opposition.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Two former chairmen of the Senate Finance Committee have re-introduced legislation to protect tax fraud whistleblowers from retaliation.

A group of lawmakers is asking for extra money for the Internal Revenue Service instead of the steep cuts proposed by the Trump administration.

The Internal Revenue Service is proposing procedures for how a taxpayer can ask for automatic consent to change an accounting method in preparation for the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s new revenue recognition standard.

The IRS regularly shares tips about different credits and deductions that can reduce a tax bill – as well as scams taxpayers should look out for.

‘Shocking’ Medicare fraud; appealing ACA determinations; tangible property regs; other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

As the April filing deadline approaches, Americans have reasons to think they might get away with not paying what they owe.

A federal court has barred a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service by two former top executives at Sprint over tax shelters promoted by Ernst & Young because the suit failed to qualify for a waiver under the Federal Tort Claims Act.

The Internal Revenue Service failed to deactivate its Identity Protection Personal Identification Number program after a data breach in May 2015 for nearly a year, despite repeated recommendations from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, according to a new report.

The Tax Court decided in favor of Amazon.com in an expensive transfer pricing dispute with the Internal Revenue Service involving intellectual property that the e-commerce giant assigned to a European subsidiary in Luxembourg.

The Internal Revenue Service has published its annual update on the depreciation and inclusion tables for owners and lessees of vehicles.

IRS shares research papers on noncompliance, tax liens, unpaid taxes and more.

The IRS is still seeking other candidates for the advisory committee.

More businesses are failing to remit payroll taxes, with 1.4 million employers owing approximately $45.6 billion in unpaid employment taxes, interest and penalties as of December 2015.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a revenue procedure permanently establishing a process for quickly resolving IRS audits after pilot-testing it in recent years.