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Once health care is tamed, President Donald Trump and Congress will turn to other bears, such as the byzantine U.S. tax code. Conveniently, a new report has come out on legal tax avoidance.

More than halfway through the 2017 filing season, the IRS reported receiving 5.7 million fewer individual returns than at a comparable point last year.

They also helped clients get $4.3 million in refunds.

Users of virtual currencies like bitcoin are backing an industry group to oppose tax authorities’ efforts to collect customer info.

The IRS has announced that interest rates will remain the same for the calendar quarter beginning April 1.

The future of the estate tax; tax prep in the gig economy; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

From a trickle to a flood, returns have started to flow in after initial delays.

As the Trump administration and the Republican dominated Congress prepare to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, a new government report may give them further ammunition.

Caterpillar Inc., the bellwether U.S. equipment maker praised just last week by President Donald Trump, now finds itself a government target as federal tax and banking authorities raided its Illinois offices.

A new report on the Internal Revenue Service OPR enforcement efforts says it's catching up on much of its backlog.

Checks aren't in the mail yet, but they could be, for millions of taxpayers who didn't file a 2013 return.

Ranking state taxes; Schedule M-2 spreadsheets; corporate income tax with no physical presence; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

Budgetary constraints contributed to the continuing decline in caseload.

Some CPA practices are using health reimbursement arrangements as a way to provide coverage to employees, in some cases offering them more benefits.

The Internal Revenue Service is turning up the heat on taxpayers. Some of them, anyway.

The American Institute of CPAs has sent a set of proposed guidelines to the Internal Revenue Service recommending how the IRS should deal with the allocation of unrelated business income expenses of tax-exempt organizations for dual-use facilities and personnel.

Public information from approved applications for tax exemption is available electronically for the first time.

Taxpayers with income from farming or fishing have until Wednesday to file their 2016 Form 1040 and pay the tax due.

The American Institute of CPAs is asking the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department to develop a new income tax form to improve S corporation shareholder compliance with basis rules.

In this time of great upheaval in our nation’s history, find peace in the things that remain constant—one of them being that someone will always try to use taxes to steal money.