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A new TIGTA report finds that the agency doesn’t always know what second jobs staff hold.

The Internal Revenue Service had a difficult time coming out with guidance, forms and instructions for provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act like GILTI.

Resource limitations and a drop in staff at the service allowed businesses to get away with billions of dollars in unpaid taxes.

The Internal Revenue Service isn’t doing enough to audit corporate mergers and acquisitions and is wasting tens of thousands of days on cases that aren’t likely to generate more tax dollars.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to have a better strategy for determining the tax compliance or noncompliance of corporations that do mergers and acquisitions, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service isn’t doing enough to address billions of dollars worth of potentially erroneous carryforward tax credits and deductions claimed by businesses, according to a new report.

A new study from TIGTA finds the number of identity theft cases investigated has dropped drastically.

Taxpayers’ personal information and tax account data remain at risk of being leaked from the Internal Revenue Service’s computer networks despite progress on a data loss prevention program, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service hasn’t done enough to improve its procedures for reviewing amended tax returns to reduce erroneous and fraudulent tax refunds, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service’s unmet needs for information technology support are producing inefficiency and higher tax administration costs, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service has set up a process for carefully vetting videos after a series of embarrassing educational videos were uncovered several years ago featuring IRS officials and employees appearing in spoofs of TV series such as "Star Trek," "Gilligan’s Island" and "Mad Men," along with a dance music video.

The accuracy of miscellaneous income statements submitted by federal entities on the Form 1099-MISC has significantly improved, but could be better.

The Internal Revenue Service tends to impose relatively few accuracy-related penalties during audits of large businesses, according to a new report.

An Inspector General report says the service isn’t doing as much as it could to encourage reporting tax fraud.

About $18.4 billion in bad payments were made on the refundable credit in 2018.

The Internal Revenue Service didn’t comply with congressional directives before closing offices last year, according to a new government report.

The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing Thursday to examine what's behind the estimated gap of approximately $460 billion between taxes owed and actually paid.

The Internal Revenue Service is making progress on improving the taxpayer authentication processes for its online applications, but more needs to be done.

A TIGTA report examines the impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on the service, and how it was implemented.

The new tax law and the 35-day shutdown had an impact on the agency, but it still managed to process over 59 million returns by mid-season.