Tax season

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More electronically filed tax returns were processed this tax season by CCH electronic filing systems than ever before.

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A roundup of news from accounting in March and early April.

Federal and state tax amnesty programs bring in revenue, but at a price

Taxpayers who have been victimized by identity thieves who stole their tax refunds have become a major concern for local taxpayer advocates.

A trip to the post office on Tax Day isn't the same as it used to be.

Agents at the IRS’s Criminal Investigation division have been cracking down on tax preparer fraud in Southern California in the waning days of tax season.

The Internal Revenue Service delayed tax refunds early this filing season for 7.8 million tax returns, according to a report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, which also described steep cutbacks in customer service at the IRS.

Just a few days ahead of the tax-filing deadline, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden released their 2011 tax returns on Friday.

“Only two things in life are certain,” Marc Albaum tells his clients. “I can help you with the other one.”

Taxpayers around the country are encountering longer wait times on IRS phone lines and at Taxpayer Assistance Centers due to budget cuts at the agency.

Some H&R Block offices are offering free filing of tax extensions now through the April 17 tax filing deadline, the company said Monday.

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Doug Shulman described in a speech Thursday how the agency is using information from its tax preparer regulation initiative to identify practitioners who are showing patterns of tax fraud.

Intuit has added new features to its iPhone app, Intuit Tax Online Mobile, including the ability for accountants to filter their client list and email PDF versions of tax returns to their clients securely.

The National Society of Accountants has begun providing an online webinar program to help tax preparers get ready for the Internal Revenue Service’s new tax preparer exam.

The Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday that taxpayers who are unable to file their taxes by the April 17 deadline can still use its Free File facility to apply for a six-month extension.

From now through April 13, Intuit’s Accounting Professional Division will host a series on its Lacerte and ProSeries Live Community Web pages in which Intuit experts address customers’ product and general tax questions.

The Internal Revenue Service said it is giving an extension to enrolled agents whose renewal applications for their enrollments have been delayed due to a processing delay.