E-filing

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The Treasury Department is trying to modernize the badly outdated agency in a bid to improve customer service and ramp up enforcement.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

The American Institute of CPAs sent its members to visit lawmakers on Capitol Hill to advocate for various bills.

Commissioner Daniel Werfel said the service plans to begin a pilot early next tax season.

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From accidentally paying state taxes on T-bill income to wonky filing deadlines, these tips will help make a federal tax return sparkle. Or at least clean.

The IRS issued a revised version allowing nonprofits and charitable trusts to file requests for miscellaneous determinations electronically.

The service has cleared its carryover backlog for original return processing, and other updates as we enter the home stretch.

The IRS system will be down for most of the morning for routine maintenance.

The service is planning to release a third-party study on the possibility of setting up its own free tax-filing system.

Final regulations issued Tuesday require companies to begin electronically filing certain kinds of returns and documents next year.

Taxpayers who receive nine types of notices asking them for information will have the ability to submit their documentation online rather than on paper.