Tax

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 IRS’s annual pick of the worst of the worst

The Internal Revenue Service reported Friday that tax season is off to a strong start this year, with the tax-filing volume running ahead of last year so far.

Picture this scene in households across the country: the daily fat stack of mail arrives. Among the magazine subscriptions and car insurance junk mail is an odd-sized, but strangely familiar envelope. The W2 has landed—the annual scorecard of the year that was.

Three Republican lawmakers are calling on the Social Security Administration to work with the Internal Revenue Service to do more to stop fraudulent claims for the Earned Income Tax Credit, particularly by the self-employed.

The Affordable Care Act requires that in 2014 all Americans must have qualified health insurance or face a Shared Responsibility Payment.

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.

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

The U.S. Treasury Department and the Department of Education are working with H&R Block and Intuit this tax season to raise awareness of the income-based repayment options for federal student loan borrowers.

Families with domestic employees struggle with all the state and federal tax obligations and often make inadvertent mistakes that can become very expensive and frustrating.