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The service has faced challenges in transitioning the system it uses for authenticating the identities of taxpayers and tax professionals.

Taxpayers' eagerness to use free software provided by the service to file their taxes may be exaggerated because of the way a survey was designed.

The TE/GE Division didn't provide satisfactory answers to many of the questions it received from taxpayers, according to a new report.

The service has been working hard to implement the dozens of tax provisions contained in last year's Inflation Reduction Act, according to a new report.

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A recent report said the service needs to improve its reviews of suspicious cyber activity and strengthen separation of duties.

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.