Tax audits

Some hoped that the TCJA would hinder cheating taxpayers; practitioners aren’t so sure.

The integration allows auditors to automate and track bank confirmations for any of their engagements.

The American Institute of CPAs has written a letter to the Internal Revenue Service asking the IRS to provide maximum flexibility in its regulations for the new centralized partnership audit regime.

While the IRS audit rate is decreasing, it’s still important to educate your clients on the things that commonly trigger an audit.

The solution helps tax accountants identify, understand and resolve IRS notices for their clients.

Audits down but taxpayers first; the TCJA and the self-employed; nexus map; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

As recently as 2010, the Internal Revenue Service used to audit nearly all 'corporate giants.'

Audit rates are dropping, but there are still triggers that taxpayers can avoid to reduce their risk even further.

Paycheck checkups; give and take; how dumb they can be; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The change of being investigated dropped to 0.6 percent, the lowest since 2002.

The $1.3 trillion omnibus appropriations bill passed by Congress last week includes some modifications to the Internal Revenue Service’s centralized audit regime for auditing large partnerships.

Typically, taxpayers contract this affliction after the agency's examiners have packed up their belongings and left the building.

The high court, in a 7 to 2 decision, ruled in favor of a business owner who didn't file taxes and destroyed some of his banking records, finding the omnibus obstruction clause in the Tax Code was overly broad.

The Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving a Colorado cannabis business that refused to cooperate with an Internal Revenue Service audit and turn over business records.

Audits aren’t the only ways the service can put them on the spot, the tax prep chain warns.

Final regulations have been released for how to avoid the centralized way the IRS can now examine large firms.

The Internal Revenue Service has proposed guidance on the new partnership audit regime that promises to make it easier for firms, if not all their partners, but with some extra complications added by the new tax reform law.

The two tax plans right now; bad bets; the future of audit; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Large Business and International division is launching 11 more compliance campaigns looking at various ways to ensure companies are meeting their tax obligations.

The American Institute of CPAs has sent its tax reform wish list to the half dozen Republicans who are leading a rewrite of the tax code.