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The House approved legislation to make IRS collection proceedings taxpayer friendly, safeguard tax refunds and provide judicial review of tax liability claims.

The Internal Revenue Service agreed not to continue any legal claims or investigations of the president's past tax returns, adding to a controversial settlement.

The Uniform Partition of Heirs' Property Act helps families avoid forced property sales in at least 24 states, according to a study sponsored by JPMorgan Chase.

The New York City mayor held individual meetings with Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, amid flurry of recent tax proposals.

The Internal Revenue Service increased overtime hours and pay for its employees after extensive staffing reductions and last fall's government shutdown.

The Internal Revenue Service has improved its ability to flag returns for signs of identity theft, adjusting its filters to reduce false positives and spot fraud.

Employees were asked to offer up their own tax returns as training data for the company's Grok chatbot, promising a $420 payment as incentive for doing so. Two months later, those payments still haven't materialized.

The amount of the fund is set at $1.776 billion, an apparent reference to the year 1776 and the creation of the U.S.