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House Passes Bill to Redesign IRS
By Melanie WaddellThe bipartisan bill overhauls the IRS' tools of enforcement but also forbids it from competing with private tax-prep services.
March 22, 2019
IRS Posts Eagerly Awaited Life Settlement Tax Reporting DraftOne question is about how to handle broker comp expenses.
March 21, 2019
IRS' Top 12 Tax Scams to Avoid: 2019Technology helps the IRS catch offenders, but taxpayers still need to be wary.
March 14, 2019
IRS Relief for Tax Underpayment: Bloink & Byrnes Go Thumb to ThumbBecause of the huge tax law change, the IRS is providing penalty relief to taxpayers who underpaid during 2018--but is it too much?
March 11, 2019
IRS Change Could Hurt Group Annuity Sales, Expand Rollover MarketNotice 2019-18 will help employers buy back pension participants' benefit streams.
March 07, 2019
IRS Warns Taxpayers, Pros to Beware of Identity TheftThe IRS has made inroads against this scam in recent years, it says, but new cons keep proliferating.
March 05, 2019
Spurned Lawmakers Press IRS Again on Form 1040 Usability DataRep. Richard Neal wants to know why a usability survey was removed from the IRS website.
March 01, 2019
IRS Whistleblower Program Collects Record $1.4B, Awards $312MThe "IRS program is now working and working remarkably well," a lawyer says.