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Tax News & IRS Insights for Accounting Professionals
Accounting Today delivers news and analysis for accounting and tax professionals on federal and state tax developments, IRS guidance,information reporting, and operational implications for practices and clients. Our coverage focuses on legislative and procedural shifts that tax practitioners must monitor in planning, compliance, and advisory contexts.
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The Internal Revenue Service nearly doubled the amount of money it paid to tax whistleblowers last year and is taking steps to make the process move faster.
February 11 -
An Internal Revenue Service employee who worked for the Taxpayer Advocate Service, where her job was to help taxpayers resolve their identity theft problems, pleaded guilty to stealing identities and orchestrating a tax-fraud scheme involving up to $1.5 million in fraudulent income tax returns.
February 11 -
Maryland's comptroller has suspended processing electronic and paper tax returns from 11 private preparers at 14 locations.
February 11 -
A New York City CPA is launching a startup company this tax season that he hopes will become an Uber for taxes.
February 10
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Many major tax changes go into effect this year for individual taxpayers.
February 10 -
For several years, researchers have been sending people into tax preparation offices to test the quality of the work. The results have been scary.
February 10 -
The Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday evening that it recently identified and halted an automated attack upon its Electronic Filing PIN application on IRS.gov.
February 10
