E-filing

The Internal Revenue Service issued a notice granting an administrative exemption from the electronic filing requirements for the Annual Withholding Tax Return for U.S. Source Income of Foreign Persons.

The Internal Revenue Service's Direct File pilot program has expanded beyond internal testing of its free tax prep system to taxpayers in a dozen states.

The Internal Revenue Service's Direct File free tax system has passed a key hurdle in the pilot test, passing muster with a dozen IRS employees successfully filing returns in as many states.

A recently introduced bill would, if passed, require the IRS to add scannable bar codes to electronically prepared paper returns, to encourage process efficiency.

A limited number of tax-exempt organizations won't be able to electronically file their income tax returns until the middle of March due to technology upgrades.

The Internal Revenue Service offered information about how business owners can avoid electronically filing their income tax forms if it violates their religious beliefs.

The official start date of tax season for individual taxpayers will be on Jan. 29, but the Internal Revenue Service plans to accept business tax returns as soon as Jan. 16.

The agency is anticipating over 128.7 million individual tax returns by the April 15, 2024, tax deadline.

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The Internal Revenue Service is extending two of its pandemic-related options for taxpayers and tax professionals.

The service plans to run a limited pilot test of its free online tax system in 13 states next tax season, but it will only support certain tax credits.

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 Internal Revenue Service is telling companies they will need to start electronically filing their forms reporting cash payments over $10,000, starting Jan. 1, 2024.

Billions of dollars later, the agency is claiming major improvements in service, technology and enforcement.

Taxpayers who aren't under examination have a new option that promises to make it easier to request relief when they need to file international tax forms and documents past a deadline.

The Treasury Department is trying to modernize the badly outdated agency in a bid to improve customer service and ramp up enforcement.

The case management system is making it more convenient for tax attorneys to electronically file documents simultaneously in consolidated groups of cases.

As the Direct File program takes shape, learning from taxpayers will be paramount.

The service has started holding discussions with advocacy groups on the direct file tax system it plans to begin testing early next year.