Tax relief

The hurricanes made it impossible for many taxpayers to meet the Oct. 17 and other impending tax deadlines.

The Internal Revenue Service is sending out letters this week to more than 9 million potentially eligible families who didn't previously claim economic impact payments or tax credits.

Five current or former Internal Revenue Service employees allegedly submitted false and fraudulent loan applications that collectively sought over $1 million.

The Internal Revenue Service added new information to its FAQ page on the tax rules surrounding the use of coronavirus funds for mortgage insurance and home purchases.

The IRS is pushing deadlines out to Feb. 15 for those impacted in Florida.

Those impacted by storms and flooding have until February to file many returns.

The vast majority of advance payments of the CTC went to eligible families, but millions of taxpayers who should have received the money did not, while millions of others who didn't qualify got them.

A group of Republicans on Congress' main tax committees sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury, backing a request from the AICPA.

In many cases, those impacted by the hurricane will have until Feb. 15 to file.

Following FEMA's disaster declaration, the IRS is pushing back some deadlines to help local taxypayers.

The agency issued billions of dollars in tax refunds to companies claiming net operating losses for prior years after passage of the CARES Act, but did little to examine the claims.

The Internal Revenue Service has been slow in processing employer tax credits and tax refunds that businesses were supposed to receive.

The agency is making progress on its backlog of unprocessed tax returns, as it's asked by the Institute to extend its recent penalty relief through the end of the year.

The tax agency will automatically issue the refunds or credits for most of the fees by the end of September.

The service is providing relief to most individual and business taxpayers who filed their 2019 or 2020 returns late due to the pandemic.

The IRS is granting postponements to St. Louis and a number of nearby counties.

More than half of U.S. states are using record budget surpluses to fund their biggest collective tax break in decades.

Small business owners have been hampered by complicated tax forms and processes that kept them from claiming pandemic-related tax credits and payroll tax deferrals.

The IRS announced extensions for any area designated by FEMA.

The service had to set up the online portal quickly to allow parents to claim advance payments, but the rollout had some hiccups and over 1,300 taxpayers suffered ID theft.