Taxes June 25, 2025
Despite calling this past tax filing season one of the most successful in recent memory, National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins warned there are potential risks heading into the 2026 tax season and that "it is critical that the IRS begin to take steps now to prepare."
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November 18, 2013
One of Oklahoma's Representatives in the U.S. Congress, Jim Bridenstine, has filed legislation that could lead to repeal of the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- the amendment enabling the current federal income tax.
November 14, 2013
IRS targets US taxpayers with offshore bank accounts in the Caribbean
November 11, 2013
A sophisticated phone scam is sweeping the country, using fear of the Internal Revenue Service to target recent immigrants and others, IRS officials warn.
October 30, 2013
The IRS designed its Correspondence Imaging System (CIS) to automate the scanning of taxpayer correspondence. The Image Control Team units in IRS submission processing sites scanned more than 8.1 million pieces of paper correspondence into the CIS during Fiscal Year 2012.
October 30, 2013
Thomson Reuters Checkpoint has released an updated special report, Tax Changes in Health Care Reform Legislation, which is designed to help tax practitioners understand the tax provisions of health care reform that take effect now through 2018.
October 25, 2013
The impact of the recent federal government shutdown is being felt by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) which announced that the beginning of the 2014 tax filing season will be delayed by up to two weeks.
October 25, 2013
The Internal Revenue Service needs to improve its process for conducting parallel investigations, according to an audit conducted by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
October 22, 2013
Last year, it was the fiscal cliff that delayed the start of tax season- this coming year, blame it on the partial government shutdown.
October 22, 2013
The Internal Revenue Service has made no significant improvement in reducing improper Earned Income Tax Credit payments, according to the latest report released by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
October 15, 2013
Thomson Reuters released a report on the IRS’s guidance on same-sex marriage following the Supreme Court’s ruling that struck down section three of the Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional.
October 8, 2013
The current lapse in federal appropriations does not affect the federal tax law, and all taxpayers should continue to meet their tax obligations as normal. Individuals and businesses should keep filing their tax returns and making deposits with the IRS, as required by law.
October 7, 2013
As this column goes to print, provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as the “ACA,” or ObamaCare) will change accountants and tax preparers from “trusted advisors” to a more derogatory status: