TIGTA

The Internal Revenue Service has not yet satisfied the goal of the Payment Integrity Information Act to reduce improper payment rates to less than 10%.

The Internal Revenue Service has been conducting "sweeps" in recent years to uncover cases where high-income people have not been filing taxes.

More than 11,400 IRS employees have either received termination notices as probationary employees or voluntarily resigned, according to a new report.

Internal Revenue Service reports of the cost of the free tax-filing program left out at least $8.8 million in costs, according to a new report.

Between January 2021 and July 2024, the IRS processed nearly 610,000 manual refunds for deceased taxpayers, but in many cases took over a year.

Internal Revenue Service employees faced threats of assault during Saturday tax assistance events in 2024, according to a recent report.

TIGTA report suggests the IRS needs to do more to enable whistleblowers to report on fraud, waste and abuse, even if they've signed nondisclosure agreements.

The Internal Revenue Service is making progress on whittling down the amount of time it takes to help victims of tax-related identity theft.

The IRS doesn't have the authority to independently verify that recipients of Low Income Taxpayer Clinic grants are eligible to receive them.

Private collection agencies have recovered only about $2.4 billion in tax debt payments since April 2017 out of the $64.9 billion assigned to them by the IRS.

The Internal Revenue Service's program for destroying sensitive paper documents needs to be improved after inspectors found many documents easily accessible.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration completed thousand investigations over the past six months that contributed to more than $6.1 billion in tax savings.

The Senate Finance Committee voted along party lines to approve David Samuel Johnson as the next Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

The inspector general issued a report on the Internal Revenue Service's response to the October 2023 attack by Hamas.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has launched a social media campaign, even as the Senate is vetting its next head.

Updating engagement letters; tax neutrality; the usual losers; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The Internal Revenue Service did little to stop fraudsters who used the Practitioner Priority Service Line to fraudulently claim nearly $462 million in refunds, per the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

Local measures galore; AI to the rescue; franchisees' checklist; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The IRS failed to address literally tens of thousands of unresolved security vulnerabilities, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

Relative accuracy; biggest cyberthreats; end-of-year meetings; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.