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While the Internal Revenue Service has managed to reduce its backlog of unprocessed tax returns since the pandemic, one area where it's losing ground is in processing all the documentation for tax adjustments.

The service is falling short in helping underserved populations in Mississippi, according to a new report.

Its investigators identified a scheme to improperly claim COVID relief tax credits.

The Internal Revenue Service's criminal investigators have been on the lookout for tax evasion by businesses that don't pay employment taxes.

Hundreds of Internal Revenue Service employees and contractors continued to have access to at least one sensitive IRS computer system even after they stopped working there.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration faulted the IRS's cloud computing governance, saying it outright cannot find certain contracts.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to do a better job of keeping track of employees who are arrested by law enforcement and notifying their colleagues, according to a new report.

The service's decision to destroy around 30 million unprocessed paper information returns to reduce its backlog during the pandemic probably had little effect on taxpayers, according to a new report.

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.