Tax debts

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.

The Internal Revenue Service is expanding its efforts to ensure businesses and individuals are paying their taxes, particularly payroll taxes, with in-person visits planned by revenue officers to more parts of the country, starting recently in Wisconsin and later this month Texas and Arkansas.

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The Internal Revenue Service is cautioning taxpayers and tax professionals to beware of a new twist on an old scam.

The service is offering a direct debit payment option to allow taxpayers to pay off their tax debts.

Resource limitations and a drop in staff at the service allowed businesses to get away with billions of dollars in unpaid taxes.

Some expatriates who have relinquished their U.S. citizenship will have the chance to comply with their U.S. tax and filing obligations and in turn qualify for relief from back taxes, penalties and interest.

Rudy Giuliani said he was forced to borrow $100,000 from President Donald Trump’s lawyer Marc Mukasey to pay his taxes after his wife tied up a joint bank account in their bitter divorce case.

The Internal Revenue Service issued a warning Friday to taxpayers who haven’t yet filed their 2018 tax returns.

A new program requiring the IRS to hire collection agencies is falling far short of its goals and putting taxpayers at risk of falling prey to scammers.

Stephen Moore, whom President Donald Trump said he’ll nominate for a seat on the Federal Reserve, owes more than $75,000 in taxes and other penalties, according to the U.S. government.