Tax season

Right out of the gate, this year has provided some intriguing storylines that undoubtedly will have ripple effects when tax pros sit down with their clients next winter.

A COVID-wrecked economy has changed the calculus for some financial planners.

A firm found itself shorthanded during tax season when two of its most experienced tax return reviewers left. What should they do?

Leaders of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee are sounding the alarm over the slow start to tax season, reflected in the initial week of data from the IRS.

Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee are urging the Internal Revenue Service to extend tax season beyond April 15 to give taxpayers another three months until July 15.

The agency’s commissioner is upbeat, but tax preparers and financial planners worry that this year could be especially chaotic due to the COVID pandemic.

The Internal Revenue Service is still dealing with a backlog of unprocessed mail from 2020, hurting its efforts to provide help with COVID-19 relief payments and this year’s tax season.

The Internal Revenue Service issued a warning Wednesday to taxpayers to beware of unethical “ghost” tax preparers who don’t sign tax returns for clients.

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