The Senate Finance Committee pushed hard for answers from a tax policy nominee on when the Treasury Department will supply recommendations on an overhaul of the tax system, and how best to meaningfully improve the nation's tax compliance.

National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson has delivered a report to Congress outlining the priority issues her office will tackle in the coming fiscal year.

The government got a big victory in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, winning a reversal of a 2004 decision in a case legal experts say will go a long way in defining what constitutes an illegal tax shelter by reestablishing the economic substance test.

Prosecutors are looking into Deutsche Bank's role in providing a lesser-known questionably tax shelter sold through a Silicon Valley firm, according to published reports.

Three weeks into the clean-up effort following the massive flooding at its Washington headquarters, the Internal Revenue Service said that the office -- which houses some 2,700 workers -- won't reopen until early 2007.

During his administration's mid-year congressional review, President Bush said that high tax revenues were responsible for helping the government reduce the budget deficit faster than originally anticipated.

Whether accounting firms and tax practitioners should be allowed to seek patent protection for the tax advice they offer is a question being raised on Capitol Hill in response to a recent upsurge in patent applications by the developers of new tax reduction strategies.