Tax debts

The agency is halting automated collection notices, balance due notices and unfiled tax return notices, after coming under pressure from lawmakers and tax professionals to first catch up on its backlog.

The National Society of Accountants has sent a letter asking the IRS to speed up the refunds for 2019 and 2020 tax returns and communicate better.

The Internal Revenue Service posted a series of videos to explain how taxpayers can steer clear of scammers who claim to be able to help them with their tax debts while charging exorbitant fees and making outrageous claims.

The service agreed to ease its policies for low-income taxpayers who are trying to settle their tax debts and still get tax refunds.

The service also noted that it would always notify taxpayers that their accounts are going to collections.

The average American will pay $525,037 in taxes over their whole lives.

The Internal Revenue Service has decided to use its discretion to avoid reducing the size of Economic Impact Payments with tax debts owed to the federal government.

The Internal Revenue Service mistakenly sent letters to many taxpayers saying it would be reducing their Economic Impact Payments to pay off the taxes they owed.

Private collection agencies that have contracted with the Internal Revenue Service to collect overdue tax debts have collected nearly $500 million since 2017, according to a new report, but that’s just a fraction of the over $30 billion owed.

The IRS is making some changes in its collection program to lessen the burden on taxpayers with outstanding tax debts who are trying to cope with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Internal Revenue Service said Friday it would restart issuing its 500 series of balance-due notices to taxpayers later this month after they were paused on May 9 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Internal Revenue Service agreed to quit warnings about unpaid taxes while it works through millions of pieces of unopened mail that have accumulated during the pandemic.

House Ways and Means Chair Richard Neal wants the IRS to quit sending balance due notices for now.

The service reminded taxpayers they will need to resume paying their taxes on July 15, but the AICPA is asking for further relief, as an inspector general report sheds light on the unprecedented filing season.

The Internal Revenue Service should make more of a priority of going after tax preparers who haven’t filed their own tax returns or paid their tax liabilities and penalties, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service is extending the due dates on its balance due notices because it wasn’t able to mail out the preprinted letters to taxpayers due to office closures during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The service hasn’t been doing enough to collect the taxes owed by hundreds of thousands of people who owe billions of dollars, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service introduced a new payment option in 2016 that lets individuals pay their taxes with cash at participating retail chains, but less than 700 payments have been made each year since the option was made available, according to a new report.

A group of Democratic lawmakers, led by presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has written a letter to Internal Revenue Service commissioner Chuck Rettig asking him to enforce a recent law.

Accounting firm owners and partners who did not get their own tax returns in on time face losing their licenses, being expelled from their professional societies, losing their livelihoods and possibly being imprisoned.