Charles Rettig

Donald Trump's promise to strip Harvard University of its tax-exempt status prompted criticism from former IRS commissioner Charles Rettig.

A former acting commissioner during the Obama administration is being nominated to fill Charles Rettig's spot.

The IRS is projecting that the annual gross tax gap in 2014-2016 of $496 billion jumped to $548 billion for 2017-2019.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen picked the agency veteran, who has been deputy commissioner for services and enforcement since last year, to head the service.

The Internal Revenue Service is making progress on its plans to recruit an additional 10,000 employees, signing up 4,000 customer service representatives to help the overloaded agency next tax season.

The Internal Revenue Service is sending out letters this week to more than 9 million potentially eligible families who didn't previously claim economic impact payments or tax credits.

Federal investigators are uncovering billions of dollars in fraud tied to pandemic relief programs.

The president is likely to nominate Beth Kaufman, a partner at the law firm Caplin & Drysdale, to be IRS chief counsel.

The president is narrowing the list of candidates to lead the Internal Revenue Service ahead of a massive expansion of tax enforcement.

The tax agency will automatically issue the refunds or credits for most of the fees by the end of September.

The service is providing relief to most individual and business taxpayers who filed their 2019 or 2020 returns late due to the pandemic.

The agency has become a target of GOP lawmakers in recent weeks after President Biden signed a new spending law with funding for tax enforcement, technology upgrades and taxpayer service.

Commissioner Rettig is promising not to use the nearly $80 billion his agency will be receiving to increase audits of small businesses or taxpayers who earn less than $400,000.

The strategic plan will provide a roadmap for what has been the largest dedicated funding stream provided to the IRS in decades.

Dozens of congressional Republicans and Democrats made the demands in a letter to the Internal Revenue Service.

The Internal Revenue Service is coming under fire in Congress again, this time for lax oversight of fraudulent charities that applied for tax-exempt status and received approval.

Commissioner Rettig unveils the agency's strategic goals for the next five years.

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A group of Senate Democrats is urging the Internal Revenue Service to extend the filing deadline for people with individual taxpayer identification numbers who have been affected by the massive processing delays at the IRS.

While Charles Rettig is scheduled to testify to Congress’s main tax-writing committees, IRS officials offered potential justifications for the unusual audits.