Tax audits

The dispute centers on a 2012 IRS audit into transfer pricing, a method used to shift profits to tax havens and avoid the U.S. corporate tax rate.

From more agents to the deployment of AI, the service is directing resources where the money is.

The service is establishing a group within its Large Business and International division to bolster tax compliance at large partnerships and S corps.

The service said Monday it plans to lower its audit rate of low-income taxpayers, even as some criticize its ability to protect taxpayer information.

The new positions, which will be in more than 250 locations, will help ramp up compliance efforts against high-income earners, partnerships, large corporations, and promoters.

The service will need to tread carefully with how it uses artificial intelligence amid growing questions about the reliability of the technology.

Following a top-to-bottom review of enforcement efforts, the agency is shifting more attention from working-class taxpayers to high-income earners, partnerships, large corporations and promoters of abusive tax shelters.

The Internal Revenue Service is leveraging artificial intelligence to detect tax evasion as it uses the extra funding from the Inflation Reduction Act to ramp up compliance efforts.

The IRS is starting to get more interested in who prepared a claim for the Employee Retention Credit.

The service's LB&I Division has expertise in training agents on examining high-income taxpayers, but the IRS doesn't appear to be leveraging this expertise.