Tax preparation

A California tax prep office is robbed, plus our weekly roundup of tax fraud cases.

Ranking state taxes; Schedule M-2 spreadsheets; corporate income tax with no physical presence; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

H&R Block is out to wrest back market share from its online tax-prep rivals with such aggressive measures as free services and interest-free advances on refunds—oh, and plunking a supercomputing Jeopardy star down on the desks of its 70,000 tax preparers.

Fraudster faces charges for soliciting taxpayer info for false returns, plus other highlights of other recent cases.

ACA penalties; helping with OICs; tax policy under an anti-policy president; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

Intuit’s exec Angela Camp and National Consumers League VP John Breyault appointed to the Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee.

The free course from the National Association of Tax Professionals was a joint venture with the IRS and the Federal Trade Commission.

Using your late mother’s Social Security number for fraud, and other highlights of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

What a tax overhaul might look like; owing $.00 to the IRS; tax season security and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

Tax pros are divided on whether donating their time to file returns for the needy is worth it.

Some of the most frequent problems with returns result from simple things like goofs in arithmetic, misspelled names and transposed numbers.

The IRS has appointed new representatives to two major advisory councils.

Businesses that never existed, students who never went to school, and other highlights from our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

A survey by tax prep chain Liberty Tax Service found that most taxpayers are waiting on paperwork, and aiming to file this month.

W-2 scams, e-mail scams, phone scams, and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers this week.

You may not be able to make the next few months fun, but you might be able to make them less hectic.

Fees are rising, but customers keep coming back.

Prices for both accounting services and tax prep are set to go up this year, according to a new survey.

A basic federal filing with a state return and no itemized deductions is up $17 over the past two years.

$24,000 in EITC due diligence fines and other highlights from our favorite recent tax fraud cases.