Tax

The Internal Revenue Service's Office of Taxpayer Burden Reduction is asking the public for recommendations on ways to reduce taxpayer burden.

A Republican-lead effort to repeal the estate tax failed to even reach a vote on the Senate floor.

A former Loveland, Colo., tax preparer charged with filing a false tax return for a couple in 2001 has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court.

A Los Angeles-based firm who advertised that tax delinquents could settle with the Internal Revenue Service for "pennies on the dollar," is facing two lawsuits.

Having been scrapped from Congress's legislative agenda in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a vote to permanently repeal the estate tax could be held in the Senate this week.

KPMG LLP received federal court approval for a $153 million settlement with more than 200 wealthy investors who bought questionable tax shelters from the Big Four firm.

Some taxpayers make novel arguments in attempts to be taxed at a favorable capital gains rate. Wolman v. Comm. is a Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals order and judgment affirming a Tax Court decision, and it shows how creative taxpayers can be.

The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio has announced the filing of three criminal charges against CPA Kimball E. Rubin, of Beachwood, Ohio, for failure to file income tax returns.

Years ago, I remember watching a news vignette about a drawbridge in some frigid state that kept an operator on duty 24 hours a day.

The 2006 filing season set a series of records, highlighted by 70 million tax returns filed electronically - up 6 percent from last year.