Tax season

Constant vigilance is the price of fighting online fraud

Tax pros share their approaches to clients who get upset over not getting a refund

Tax pros shares the different ways they relax after April 18 — and how many of them get right back to work

TaxAct plans to launch a new sweepstakes next week for tax professionals to celebrate the end of tax season.

Many small business owners who received tax refunds plan to invest the money in their businesses, according to a new survey.

Could those Form 4868 extensions that you’re filing for your clients turn tax procrastinators into prey?

Liberty Tax Service has developed an executive task force to examine issues within the company “and take aggressive action” to ensure all franchisees meet the tax prep giant’s standards.

The Internal Revenue Service’s expanded use of controls this tax season to identify fraudulent refund claims before accepting them into its processing system has allowed the IRS to identify approximately 35,000 fraudulent e-filed tax returns and 741 paper tax returns as of Feb. 29, 2016, according to a new government report.

You survived another tax season. After three months at the grind, here’s how your peers are lurching toward May.

Uh-oh. You messed something up on your tax return. What now?

The House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee held a hearing Tuesday on the 2016 filing season and the Internal Revenue Service’s cybersecurity efforts.

A number of mobile tax apps could be putting users’ personal information at risk of exposure to hackers, according to security researchers.

I always ended tax season with my office closed the next day. It is a day to clear your mind and come down from a high-performance mentality.

This probably will beggar belief for the millions of Americans struggling to meet this year's April 18 deadline to file their income tax returns, but the Internal Revenue Service says it has gotten better at handling taxpayer questions.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and his wife earned $205,271 in adjusted gross income in 2014 and paid $27,653 in taxes—an effective rate of about 13.5 percent, according to documents released Friday.

President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, reported adjusted gross income of $436,065 for 2015, down 8.7 percent from the previous year, according to tax returns released Friday by the White House.

Most people think of April as income-tax month for individuals, but it’s also the biggest business tax-filing month of the year. Why? Because four out of every five U.S. businesses are “pass-throughs,” meaning they are taxed on individual returns at individual rates.

It's impossible to imagine the IRS ever changing its image. Or is it? Three leading global design and brand strategy firms give it a try.

At the post office in Lawrence, Kansas, filing your taxes used to be an excuse to party.

As the days tick down until the end of tax season, some clients need some gentle urging to get their taxes done, or at least to file for a six-month extension.