Tax practice

The Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation unit needs to improve its search and seizure warrant process to ensure that the evidence it seizes is properly secured and controlled, according to a new government report.

Years of budget cuts are having a negative impact on the ability of the Internal Revenue Service to collect delinquent taxes, according to a new government report.

Raoul Weil, who once ran UBS AG’s global wealth-management business, was cleared at trial of tax conspiracy despite the bank’s historic admission in 2009 that it helped thousands of U.S. clients abuse Swiss bank secrecy to cheat the Internal Revenue Service.

The IRS Information Reporting Program Advisory Committee thinks the IRS should expand its TIN Matching Program, according to its recently released annual report.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Why this practice area tops the list in liability claims

Gearing up for the new repair regs

A roundup of tax news

Many taxing issues remain around health care reform

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

The fate of President Barack Obama’s health-care law is again in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

The Internal Revenue Service is encouraging taxpayers with previously undeclared foreign bank accounts to enter into its Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program, but there are now choices between a new streamlined version of the OVDP and the regular program that will require careful consideration and advice from practitioners.

The Internal Revenue Service is making changes in W-2 and 1099 forms and reporting requirements, starting next year.

The Internal Revenue Service announced the annual inflation adjustments for tax year 2015 for more than 40 tax provisions, including the tax rate schedules, and other tax changes.

New York’s banking regulator will ask for more than $300 million to settle an investigation into whether Bank Leumi Le-Israel BM helped Americans evade taxes, a person familiar with the matter said.

Governments around the world closed in on tax evaders with an automatic data-sharing accord that broadens efforts by the U.S. and the five biggest European Union economies to more than 50 countries and territories.

A former Internal Revenue Service employee received a prison sentence for leading a conspiracy to steal taxpayers’ identifying information in order to receive fraudulent tax refunds.

The Internal Revenue Service issued two items of guidance Wednesday in response to the need for charitable and other relief due to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

The National Conference of CPA Practitioners is warning that the complexities of the Affordable Care Act may negatively affect millions of taxpayers in the upcoming tax season.