Charles Rettig

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.

The Internal Revenue Service appointed Lia Colbert as the new commissioner of its Small Business Self-Employed Division to oversee the IRS’s collection activities and the examinations of most businesses in the U.S.

“IRS employees want to do more to help taxpayers,” Commissioner Rettig told Congress on Thursday.

The service has been under pressure from Congress and accounting groups to perform better as another hectic tax season comes to a close.

The IRS has the expertise to enforce President Joe Biden’s proposal to tax the unrealized gains of mega-millionaires and billionaires, Senator Elizabeth Warren contended in the face of criticism over the workability of a proposal she strongly supports.

Lawmakers are asking the Internal Revenue Service to expedite the processing of Employee Retention Tax Credits and not to penalize small businesses for incorrectly paying their estimated quarterly taxes as they await their claims.

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rettig pledged to do more to improve taxpayer service after Congress approved a $675 million funding increase.

The page aims to provide the latest about the current tax season, and the agency’s efforts to deal with the backlog of millions of previously filed returns.

The agency is halting automated collection notices, balance due notices and unfiled tax return notices, after coming under pressure from lawmakers and tax professionals to first catch up on its backlog.

The Internal Revenue Service backtracked from a plan to use facial recognition software from a third-party company for taxpayer authentication.

The service faces a backlog of millions of unprocessed tax returns, and warned taxpayers and preparers to be patient.