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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 landedthe annual scorecard of the year that was.
February 6 -
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.
February 6 -
The Affordable Care Act requires that in 2014 all Americans must have qualified health insurance or face a Shared Responsibility Payment.
February 5 -
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.
February 5 -
Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.
February 5 -
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.
February 4 -
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.
February 4 -
As Congress begins to digest President Obamas proposals for changes in how to tax the foreign earnings of U.S. multinational companies, a brief refresher on business structure might be useful.
February 3
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A group of senators have introduced legislation aimed at enhancing the tax breaks available in Section 529 college savings plans, only days after the Obama administration backed away from a proposal to tax new contributions to such plans.
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Former Internal Revenue Service commissioner Mark W. Everson is worried about the impact of continuing budget cuts on his old agencys ability to help taxpayers and tax practitioners this tax season as the IRS is encouraging taxpayers to check the IRS.gov Web site for answers to questions before picking up the phone.
February 3
