TIGTA

The service’s recent policies expedited the hiring of new employees, but prolonged delays in eligibility verification could increase the risk of exposure of taxpayer data, according to a new report.

A Treasury inspector general will review why two former FBI officials who ran afoul of former President Donald Trump were subjected to rare and detailed tax audits.

A congressional appropriations committee wants to give the Internal Revenue Service $1 billion more in funding to improve taxpayer service and technology and make the overall tax system fairer.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration is raising the alarm about identity thieves and fraudsters with a pair of public service announcements on YouTube.

The inspector general said the Child Tax Credit Update portal was generally implemented well, but pointed out several vulnerabilities that need to be addressed.

The service also failed to issue $80 million in payments to eligible individuals, according to a new report from TIGTA.

Over one-fourth of the nearly 1,700 cases were violations that usually led to employees being suspended, fired or resigning.

The service is being asked to provide more information about the race, ethnicity and sex of taxpayers but is facing legal restrictions, according to a new report.

The service decided to destroy the documents in March 2021 because of its inability to process its backlog of paper tax returns, according to a new report.

Over 30,000 extra taxpayers may now qualify because of a provision of the American Rescue Plan Act that expanded eligibility.

The service faces challenges that are holding back efforts to process both last year’s and this year’s tax returns, according to a new report.

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Despite offering less in the way of legal protections, the service uses lien foreclosures more often, according to a TIGTA report.

Over three-quarters of the audits conducted by the Internal Revenue Service under its centralized partnership audit regime resulted in no change in taxes, according to a new report.

And as many as 644,000 eligible taxpayers may not have gotten their checks, according to a new TIGTA report.

Computer programming errors, which the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration had previously warned them about, led to more than 60,000 erroneous stimulus payments.

The service needs to make changes in its management of taxpayer accounts to reduce the backlog of millions of unprocessed tax returns, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to do a better job of administering the partial payment installment agreements it offers to taxpayers with delinquent tax debts as many of them end up defaulting, according to a new report.

The inspector general urged the IRS to make changes to its computer-coding system after identifying multiple control weaknesses in processing claims.