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The IRS has been examining only a tiny fraction of tax filings from large partnerships due to staffing shortages and other resource constraints.

The Internal Revenue Service vastly overstated the projected costs of operating the free tax prep program before terminating it, according to a new report.

The IRS issued Recovery Rebate Credits for the pandemic to nearly 301,000 ineligible taxpayers, many of whom were either immigrants or received extra payments.

TIGTA found that thousands of the IRS's new hires in 2024 did not receive equipment or performance expectations in a timely manner.

Taxpayers on average collected $2,290 in refunds through Feb. 6, according to IRS data.

The Internal Revenue Service made only limited progress in scanning a tiny fraction of paper-filed returns last tax season, according to a new report.

The agency incorrectly labeled some taxpayers as hostages when providing tax relief, or failed to remove a special indicator after their release from captivity.

A group of Senate Democrats and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration are raising questions about the impact of IRS funding cuts.

The IRS offered relief from failure-to-pay penalties to nearly 5 million taxpayers during the pandemic, but 3.6 million have since taken steps to pay tax debts.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration will examine the workforce reductions by the Trump administration and the elimination of paper checks.

Democrats are asking TIGTA to investigate reports that the administration plans to have the Internal Revenue Service target left-leaning nonprofits and donors.

The Internal Revenue Service is confronting a daunting array of management and performance challenges in fiscal year 2026, according to a new report.

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A review of over 800 calls found that the overwhelming majority of phone interactions with Internal Revenue Service reps were courteous and professional.

The Internal Revenue Service was able to steer through this past tax season despite extensive cuts, but next season could be a problem, according to a new report.

Approximately 10,000 employers never paid the Social Security taxes they have deferred ever since the 2020 pandemic, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service is reportedly reversing course on some of its wide-ranging job cuts after realizing they reduced the staff too drastically.

Taxpayers are unable to get through to live help through the IRS's toll-free phone lines, even when the IRS claims its wait times are only about three minutes.

The IRS failed to follow its own procedures when terminating thousands of probationary employees or consider their individual performance.

The Internal Revenue Service didn't do enough to verify the identity of callers to its Practitioner Priority Service and Business Specialty Tax phone lines.