Tax audits

A federal judge indicated he would allow House Democrats to proceed with a lawsuit that seeks to obtain the president’s tax returns from the Treasury Department.

The Internal Revenue Service has a message for companies that owe taxes on overseas profits: Auditors are closely watching.

The Internal Revenue Service isn’t effectively auditing corporations despite a change in how the agency conducts tax examinations that was supposed to make the process more efficient, according to the agency watchdog.

Treasury’s inspector general is investigating how the department handled a request from Congress to turn over President Donald Trump’s tax returns, which was rejected by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

Senator Elizabeth Warren’s campaign promise to fund social programs by making America’s wealthiest pay a small percentage of their fortune every year could create a costly and difficult compliance system for both the taxpayers and the IRS.

The Internal Revenue Service isn’t doing enough to audit corporate mergers and acquisitions and is wasting tens of thousands of days on cases that aren’t likely to generate more tax dollars.

The federal government is collecting billions of dollars less than it could because of resource shortages at the tax agency, according to a new study.

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The U.K. retailer reported a surprise tax bill of almost $750 million, the departure of its financial chief and deepening woes at department-store chain House of Fraser.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a revenue procedure giving some partnerships extra time to file a Form 1065 and the accompanying Schedule K-1.