The Internal Revenue Service has been doing a better job of detecting and preventing fraudulent refunds this filing season, but programming bugs and inadequate controls are still allowing erroneous claims to get through for various tax credits.

Taxpayers set a record over the weekend, surpassing the 100 million mark for electronically filed tax returns so far this season.

The House passed the controversial budget plan introduced last week by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., in a largely party-line vote on Friday.

The White House introduced the ability to generate a “federal taxpayer receipt” on its Web site Friday.

Tax filers who paid an accountant or CPA to prepare their returns registered a high level of satisfaction with their method of preparation, with 75 percent stating that they were “very satisfied” in working with the accountant or CPA, according to a new survey.

It’s doubtful whether the tax changes proposed by the President in his speech on Wednesday would generate much of a dent in the deficit, even if they were to be accepted by Congress.

The Internal Revenue Service issued final regulations Thursday lowering the initial enrollment and renewal of enrollment user fees for enrolled agents and enrolled retirement plan agents, and separating the enrolled retirement plan agent user fees from the enrolled agent user fees.