Charles Rettig

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.

Clients should know about Identity Protection Personal Information Numbers to safeguard against data theft.

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.

A Treasury inspector general will review why two former FBI officials who ran afoul of former President Donald Trump were subjected to rare and detailed tax audits.

The two were subject to a rarely used program of intense scrutiny that is supposed to be randomly selected.

The service said that as of June 10, it had processed more than 4.5 million of the more than 4.7 million individual paper returns received in 2021.

The Internal Revenue Service introduced a new feature that enables taxpayers to check the status of their current tax year and tax refunds for the two previous years as the agency continues to come under fire for processing backlogs.

The service is coming under criticism for destroying an estimated 30 million paper-filed information returns, with one lawmaker even calling for the IRS commissioner to be replaced immediately.

A research note from Barclays paints a picture of an exploding new industry that the IRS is struggling to hold to account. 

The service faces challenges that are holding back efforts to process both last year’s and this year’s tax returns, according to a new report.

The service plans to migrate its online services for tax pros to ID.me this summer, despite congressional objections to the authentication company.

The IRS chief opens up about IRS challenges, his family and the way forward.