Tax season

The tax prep chain has partnered with consumer financial resources company NerdWallet to help taxpayers save for their futures.

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.

While death and taxes may be a certainty, how quickly Americans are getting their refunds remains up in the air—and that’s taking a toll on eateries’ revenue.

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

The IRS says it will accept filings that don’t say whether a a taxpayer has health insurance for ACA purposes.

Every preparer wants to know what their clients think. The trick is how to find out.

Taxpayers often have radically different opinions of the Internal Revenue Service than tax professionals — which offers practitioners some opportunities.

A new alert cautions practitioners about phishing emails purporting to come from tax app companies.

The Internal Revenue Service is putting out the word on how to beat the tax-filing crowd right after Presidents Day—one of the agency’s busiest times of the year.

The company announced that they will provide TaxWise® Online 2016 to volunteer preparers at bases around the globe.

Teens from Florida, Michigan and Texas each received $20,000 college scholarships from the tax prep chain's recent Budget Challenge high school competition.

The IRS web page where taxpayers and tax professionals can check on the status of refunds will be updated on Saturday, February 18 for most early filers who claimed the Earned Income Tax Credit or the Additional Child Tax Credit.

Purchased vs. licensed tax software; the Trump impact on taxes; a Canadian perspective on filing U.S. taxes; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

There is no question there are different kinds of complexity for returns.

The Internal Revenue Service is seeing a sharp decline in returns so far this season.

The Internal Revenue Service is making progress on its efforts to combat stolen identity refund fraud, but the accuracy of its measurements of the identity theft problem needs to be better, according to a new government report.

The Internal Revenue Service has posted a new version of Form 7004 to reflect the fact that businesses can now get an automatic extra six months to file.

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.

Tax season is a busy time and there is a temptation to take a shortcut on procedures, skip some extra training or sidestep an extra effort to be in touch with a client. Succumbing to these and other temptations is a shortsighted mistake that should be avoided.