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The Internal Revenue Service needs to do more to ensure taxpayers aren’t using virtual currencies like bitcoin to avoid taxes, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service didn’t do enough to mitigate risks in some of its information technology contracts, according to a new report.

Last week I wrote about certain fixed fee arrangements where I did extras I did not bill for. Here is a further explanation.

An emeritus professor of business administration in Rochester, New York, pleaded guilty to hiding $200 million in assets from the Internal Revenue Service by using offshore accounts at a bank that people familiar with the matter identified as Credit Suisse Group AG.

The IRS has issued an urgent alert to tax professionals who use IRS e-Services to beware of an e-mail asking them to update their accounts and directing them to a fake Web site.

Victims of October's Hurricane Matthew in parts of Virginia may qualify for tax relief, the IRS said.

Tax preparers charge a nationwide average of $114 to prepare a Form 1040 with no schedules.

This past April, I stepped onstage to deliver the keynote address to one of my firm’s largest client conferences for tax. I addressed a group of 1,200 or more professionals almost evenly balanced between men and women. In fact, in EY’s own tax practice, women represent 52 percent of the professionals.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued final regulations on controlled foreign corporations to provide rules about the treatment of U.S. property held by the CFC in connection with transactions involving partnerships.

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Republicans on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee sent a a letter Thursday to Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew asking him to withdraw the Treasury’s recently proposed regulations on estate and gift taxes.

Ninety percent of the accounting industry is tied to compliance services in areas such as accounting, audit and tax, but don’t look there for encouraging signs of industry performance.

Internal Revenue Service examiners confront some steep barriers when trying to audit the transfer pricing strategies used by multinational corporations to reduce their taxes, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service convened a meeting of its Security Summit partners in the tax preparation industry and state tax authorities Thursday to discuss additional steps they can take to safeguard tax refunds from identity theft next filing season.

The National Association of Enrolled Agents opposes the recently announced IRS hike on user fees, specifically the proposed six-fold increase in the price of taking the EA Exam.

Whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump is elected next Tuesday, there are some tax-planning moves that will make sense for your clients no matter who gets into the Oval Office.

The IRS’s recent Audit Techniques Guide for the Tangible Property Regulations can help business taxpayers avoid problems with IRS examiners in interpreting the 2014 regulations on how to treat expenses incurred for materials, supplies, repairs and maintenance.

The 2017 tax outlook for businesses

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

A talent war is taking place as competition intensifies for quality high-level positions.