Employee benefits

The Internal Revenue Service is granting relief to taxpayers who have family coverage under a high deductible health plan and who contribute to a health savings account.

The Internal Revenue Service recently reduced a user fee, modified its policy on issuing opinion and advisory letters, and changed the pre-approved program for cash balance plans.

As the country moves toward full employment, employers face the challenge of differentiating their business and job opportunities.

While most workplace injuries and illnesses are legitimate, occasionally employees try to manipulate the system by filing a false or exaggerated workers’ compensation insurance claim.

The tax-writing panel voted on a bipartisan basis to approve a set of bills to “redesign” the Internal Revenue Service.

The Republican and Democratic leaders of the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee released legislation to ‘redesign’ the Internal Revenue Service.

The Internal Revenue Service and its partners in the tax industry and state tax authorities issued a warning Monday about a wave of e-mails from cybercriminals purporting to come from “IRS Refunds.”

The Big Four firm announced a slew of employee benefits including reduced hours for new parents and $1K bonuses for all staff members.

The new authentication process that was installed after a big data breach still isn’t protecting taxpayer info.

The Internal Revenue Service cautioned practitioners to be on the alert for the re-emergence of a cybercriminal scam that is helping fuel a dramatic uptick in reports of stolen information from firms.

Sometimes the strategy can eliminate a domino effect of other expensive tax problems down the road, Ed Slott writes.

The Internal Revenue Service is cautioning tax professionals to safeguard their information from identity thieves.

The Internal Revenue Service is beginning to release tax refunds for taxpayers who claim the Earned Income Tax Credit or the Additional Child Tax Credit after subjecting their tax returns to some extra scrutiny.

The Internal Revenue Service failed to tell nearly half a million victims of identity theft last year their information was being used by others for employment purposes, according to a new report, which attributed the failure to a computer programming error.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to do more to prevent inactive Employer Identification Numbers from being used to commit business identity theft and tax fraud, according to a new government report.

The Internal Revenue Service said Thursday it saw dramatic declines in tax-related identity theft last year, thanks to the effort of the Security Summit, which brings together the IRS with state tax authorities and the tax industry.

The Internal Revenue Service is making progress on improving its authentication processes after a string of data breaches on some of its e-Services and online apps, but some of the improvements haven’t been completely implemented, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 won’t affect the tax year 2018 dollar limitations for retirement plans the IRS had announced last year.

The Internal Revenue Service warned tax professionals Friday to beef up their security measures and avoid clicking on some new phishing emails that can download malware onto their computers to steal their clients’ data.

The Internal Revenue Service’s efforts last year to safeguard against identity theft by asking employers to file W-2 forms earlier and holding tax refunds longer if taxpayers claimed the Earned Income Tax Credit or the Additional Child Tax Credit did not always work, according to a new report.