Tax

The Office of Professional Responsibility is trying to expand its authority over preparers – and running into opposition.

The Internal Revenue Service overpaid more than 600 employees approximately $4.2 million and underpaid over 900 employees an estimated $2.7 million because of incorrect calculations of manager salaries, according to a new report.

Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, have introduced bipartisan legislation that would prevent businesses from deducting the money they pay to government agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle allegations of company wrongdoing.

When I started my practice I tried to extend as many clients as I could. I figured this would ease tax season and spread the work out throughout the year.

Jonathan Mariner, former CFO of Major League Baseball and now president of TaxDay, discusses how to help clients such as professional athletes deal with taxes in the different states where they work.

The IRS audited slightly more than 1 million returns of individuals in Fiscal Year 2016, down almost 16 percent from the prior year’s 1.2 million, according to the latest IRS Data Book.

Preparers are divided on the value of promoting themselves during their busiest time.

A new report from the Government Accountability Office questions the usefulness of services such as identity monitoring, credit monitoring and identity theft insurance, particularly when it comes to safeguarding against tax refund fraud.

The Internal Revenue Service has seen a proliferation in the past 24 hours of a phishing email seeking to steal tax practitioners’ usernames and passwords for the IRS's online services.

Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn said Thursday it’s uncertain whether Congress will offset the tax cuts that Republicans hope to deliver with new revenue, creating the chance that their tax-overhaul plan would be limited to 10 years.