Ron Wyden

The head of the Taxpayer Advocate Service at the IRS for 18 years will be retiring at the end of July.

The legislation would retroactively extend tax provisions that expired at the end of 2017 and 2018 through the rest of 2019.

A letter from a senior official to Senate Democrats throws cold water on any extra relief for taxpayers.

Senate Democrats are accusing the Trump administration of hastily redoing the tax withholding tables last year, harming taxpayers and causing them to owe taxes this year.

Wyden urged the president to accept the funding compromise on border security, or else risk delaying tax refunds.

A senator and a representative from Oregon aim to bring state and national cannabis laws into greater alignment.

For the week ending Feb. 1, 2019, the service received 16,035,000 returns, compared to 18,302,000 returns last year, a 12.4 percent decrease.

Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Wyden asked to keep the program going for tax practitioners in the wake of the government shutdown.

The top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee is questioning officials about how taxpayer assistance, cybersecurity, operations and tax refunds will be affected.

The top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee wants the service to waive the penalties that he expects to hit millions of workers and families.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady has given up on an additional round of tax cuts. Now, the only tax item he might be able to get passed this year is something he hates: the annual renewal of prized industry tax breaks.

House Ways and Means Committee chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, released a far-reaching tax and oversight package containing tax extenders, technical corrections to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, retirement and other savings enhancements and changes in the way the IRS operates.

Republicans thought the historic overhaul that slashed taxes would be one of their main campaign selling points ahead of November elections. Instead, Democrats are talking more about the law — and how they want to undo it.

A closely divided Senate Finance Committee advanced the nominee for the next Internal Revenue Service commissioner, Charles Rettig, by a vote of 14 to 13, but he awaits a vote by the full Senate.

Republicans are promising Tax Reform 2.0, but only a few measures may get approved.

The Finance Committee is expected to approve Trump’s nomination of a tax attorney as the next head of the Internal Revenue Service.

Charles Rettig, a tax lawyer who is Donald Trump’s pick to lead the IRS, told lawmakers Thursday he’d never represented a client who has been under a continuous agency audit for a decade, as is the case with the president, and that he doesn’t know any details of the review.

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Internal Revenue Service, Charles Rettig, has spent decades helping wealthy and famous people fight the agency’s efforts to collect taxes.

A Senate hearing Tuesday indicated the politics of the tax overhaul haven’t changed since it passed in December, with Republicans singing its praises as an economist booster and Democrats torching it as a broken promise that mostly benefits the wealthiest.

The Internal Revenue Service is preparing to release draft versions of tax forms, instructions and guidance for the TCJA over the next few months.