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When notices arrive late; deferred FICA minefield; two decades a-wandering; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

Offer ‘solutions more than products; ’the gig economy and the profession; new blog in town; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

Despite strong efforts by the service, the pandemic claimed dozens of its employee, according to a TIGTA report.

A new TIGTA report warns, however, that many didn’t follow the rules and could face potential tax penalties.

Over 500 government entities improperly applied for advance payments of employer tax credits last year during the COVID-19 pandemic and needed to repay them, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service ended a strategy for examining high-income taxpayers in 2017 and switched to another strategy that brought in far less tax revenue in the next few years.

Better enforcement; for fans of tax crime; partner sabbaticals please; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The Internal Revenue Service issued more than 4.4 million Economic Impact Payments last year totaling more than $5.5 billion to potentially ineligible people, according to a new report.

Billions of dollars in underreported taxes by employers and backup withholding for their employees are helping fuel the tax gap, according to a new report.

The EITC, the ACTC and the ACTC continue to be abused, even as they become more generous.

The Internal Revenue Service is having a hard time hiring enough staff to help it get through this year’s extended tax season and overcome its backlog of unprocessed tax returns.

The Internal Revenue Service could be doing more to track unreported income flowing through popular peer-to-peer apps like Venmo and Zelle.

The Internal Revenue identified more than 4,500 fraudulent tax returns using an inmate’s Social Security Number in 2019, claiming refunds totaling over $14 million.

U.S. taxpayers face the risk of delayed tax refunds as the agency struggles to work down a backlog of returns from last year, according to a watchdog report.

Auditors were only able to recoup about 39 percent of the more than $4 billion in unpaid taxes owed by a group of rich taxpayers with an average annual income of nearly $1.6 million.

The Internal Revenue Service is confronting some barriers in detecting improper conduct by tax-exempt organizations that abuse the federal tax laws.

The Internal Revenue Service should be doing more to protect the security of tax transcript information available through its Income Verification Express Service program, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service is alerting tax professionals about a dangerous new phishing scam.

Claims for the R&D tax credit may be coming under closer scrutiny from the IRS.

The Internal Revenue Service hasn’t been properly vetting millions of dollars in deductions that could be erroneous, according to the inspector general.