Tax tools

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

Small businesses should ask these five questions about software when selecting a tax preparer.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen met with the heads of some of the major tax software companies, tax preparation chains, state tax commissioners and other officials in an effort to combat the growing problem identity theft and tax fraud.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Free File Alliance have reached a new five-year agreement to continue providing free tax preparation software for 70 percent of tax filers.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

Intuit Inc., maker of tax-preparation software TurboTax, said that it has received information requests from the U.S. government following its decision to temporarily halt state tax filing due to fraudulent activity.

Thomson Reuters has added tax research on e-commerce to its Checkpoint Catalyst research service.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

Intuit Inc., maker of tax-preparation software TurboTax, denied claims that it prioritized the processing of fraudulent state and federal tax refunds at the expense of customers.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

Ah, the emotions of tax season: the rising sense of intensity and excitement followed by the descent into exhaustion.

Intuit Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brad Smith is facing one of the biggest challenges in his seven-year tenure: how to restore trust in his company after fraudulent tax returns were filed through its TurboTax program.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

Intuit Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brad Smith wrote to the Internal Revenue Service calling for the government to share information to help combat fraud, after states saw a rise in fraudulent returns being submitted via his company’s TurboTax tax software.

The Internal Revenue Service released IRS2Go 5.0, an update to the official IRS app.

Intuit announced that TurboTax resumed e-filing of state income tax returns Sunday afternoon after the company paused transmissions Friday due to suspicious filings and attempts to file fraudulent state tax returns and claim refunds.

The Internal Revenue Service has launched a new, online public directory of tax return preparers as part of its effort to promote its Annual Filing Season Program for testing and continuing education of tax preparers on a voluntary basis.