Tax forms

A pair of leaders on the House Ways and Means Committee are asking whether the IRS did enough testing and why the results haven't been released to the public.

The redesigned form is not exactly postcard size, but it reflects changes under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that promise to simplify the tax prep process.

Here are some of the most important 2018 year-end tax-planning considerations for individual clients from Grant Thornton.

The goal is to protect taxpayers from cybercrooks.

For 2019, the service will just update the 2018 version of the form.

This is the third buy for the tax services company in five years.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to improve its procedures to prevent the fraudulent use of third-party authorization forms.

Preparers are offering warnings and education, but few are listening.

Combined, the six supplemental tax schedules include more than 50 additional line items.

The IRS is reminding truckers and truck owners that they need to file their 2290s soon.

A proposed revision to the standard withholding document heralds major changes.

CPAs and EAs are raising objections to the draft version of the Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate.

The National Association of Enrolled Agents has written a letter to the Internal Revenue Service strongly criticizing the draft version of the new Form W-4, the Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate, saying it raises privacy concerns and creates a “substantial risk of underwithholding.”

The Internal Revenue Service’s six additional schedules hardly seem to fit onto a postcard.

The draft version of the streamlined form tries to deliver on one of the promises of the tax simplification effort, but adds more schedules.

The IRS’s new 1040 tax form doesn’t exactly fit on a standard postcard as Republicans promised, but it’s smaller and simpler than before — and it may push more filers to use software rather than in-person tax preparers.

The short form would fulfill one of the promises of last December’s tax overhaul.

The first quarterly payments are due on April 17.

Late receipt of wage reporting documents is reducing the capabilities of a new system for deterring tax cheats.

The Internal Revenue Service may be changing Schedule UTP, the Uncertain Tax Position Statement, which corporate taxpayers file with their Form 1120 tax returns, because it doesn’t contain enough information to be useful in compliance efforts, according to a new report.