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The IRS needed to respond to nearly 800 employee reports of assaults and threats in recent years, according to a new report.

The service's LB&I Division has expertise in training agents on examining high-income taxpayers, but the IRS doesn't appear to be leveraging this expertise.

Nearly 500 service employees worked at large firms or big companies either before, during or after they worked at the IRS, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service correctly calculated the allowable Recovery Rebate Credit for the vast majority of 2021 tax returns, but some erroneous payments were made, according to a new report.

Two Republican lawmakers are asking the Internal Revenue Service to explain what happened to microfilm cartridges filled with years' worth of taxpayer data that appear to have vanished.

Employees weren't always following the rules when it came to talking to taxpayers instead of representatives like accountants and attorneys.

A new report says the service isn't effectively managing or resolving many of its remediation efforts.

Taxpayer information in this format isn't being safeguarded properly, according to a new report.

The service developed an indicator to lock the accounts of millions of taxpayers whom the agency assumed had died, but for tens of thousands of people, it may have been wrong.

The service may revive the extra payments it provided to employees in 2020 to coax them back to the office, according to a new report.

The IRS cybersecurity program has some key weaknesses, according to a recent inspector general report.

The service is trying to fully staff its in-person TACs around the country, but first it has to make them easier to locate.

The service isn't doing enough to safeguard sensitive information when it's shipped between tax processing centers, according to a new report.

The service has updated its systems to detect invalid claims for the Child and Dependent Care Credit and the EITC.

The Ways & Means Committee voted to release transcripts of interviews with agency employees about an investigation of the taxes of President Biden's son.

The service had to scramble to reconcile the advance payments of the Child Tax Credit it distributed in 2021 with the amounts later reported by recipients.

The Internal Revenue Service has deployed more filters to catch a growing number of tax returns filed by identity thieves, but fraudsters are continuing to collect millions of dollars despite those efforts.

The service has been giving its employees training in how to deal with active shooter situations, as the agency faces an onslaught of threats.

The Internal Revenue Service has caught up on much of the pile of unprocessed tax returns, but it's still not back to normal.

The service is removing employees' first names from correspondence, but their last names and phone numbers will still appear.