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The Internal Revenue Service doesn’t have a coordinated strategy in place to deal with unregulated tax preparers, according to a government report.

The Internal Revenue Service did a lot to implement the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, yet its efforts have fallen short, says TIGTA.

The Internal Revenue Service postponed tax filings and payments for more than 68 million taxpayers affected by the killer storms.

The Internal Revenue Service plans to spend close to $300 million to implement the new tax law.

Thousands of IRS workers and appointees didn't get completely vetted before they were hired, according to a new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department say the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will require hiring the equivalent of 1,734 full-time employees over the next two years.

The Internal Revenue Service is continuing to expand its efforts to detect tax refund fraud this tax season, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service is being urged to consider modifying the 1040 form to simplify claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit.

Some of the tax returns selected by Internal Revenue Service examiners for extra scrutiny didn’t have millions of dollars in refunds held last year as they were required to be, according to a new report, and in other cases the notifications weren’t sent to taxpayers.

Late receipt of wage reporting documents is reducing the capabilities of a new system for deterring tax cheats.

The Internal Revenue Service may be changing Schedule UTP, the Uncertain Tax Position Statement, which corporate taxpayers file with their Form 1120 tax returns, because it doesn’t contain enough information to be useful in compliance efforts, according to a new report.

The new authentication process that was installed after a big data breach still isn’t protecting taxpayer info.

Despite legislation in 2015 giving the tax agency more time to double-check returns claiming the EITC and the ACTC, the process often doesn't work.

Keeping employees from being mislabeled as independent contractors hasn't been a big priority, according to a report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

The Internal Revenue Service failed to tell nearly half a million victims of identity theft last year their information was being used by others for employment purposes, according to a new report, which attributed the failure to a computer programming error.

The chairmen of Congress’s main tax committees are calling on the head of the Internal Revenue Service to put in place screening procedures to make sure employees with serious conduct issues don’t receive bonuses, in response to a government report pointing to continuing problems in this area despite some progress.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to do more to prevent inactive Employer Identification Numbers from being used to commit business identity theft and tax fraud, according to a new government report.

The Internal Revenue Service is making progress on improving its authentication processes after a string of data breaches on some of its e-Services and online apps, but some of the improvements haven’t been completely implemented, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service’s processes for assigning Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers don’t always manage to identify fraudulent or incomplete applications, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service generally did a good job last season creating processes to handle some of the new provisions affecting tax season, according to a government report, but there were a few areas where it could be improved.