E-filing

The Internal Revenue Service offered information about how business owners can avoid electronically filing their income tax forms if it violates their religious beliefs.

The official start date of tax season for individual taxpayers will be on Jan. 29, but the Internal Revenue Service plans to accept business tax returns as soon as Jan. 16.

The agency is anticipating over 128.7 million individual tax returns by the April 15, 2024, tax deadline.

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The Internal Revenue Service is extending two of its pandemic-related options for taxpayers and tax professionals.

The service plans to run a limited pilot test of its free online tax system in 13 states next tax season, but it will only support certain tax credits.

Taxpayers' eagerness to use free software provided by the service to file their taxes may be exaggerated because of the way a survey was designed.

The Internal Revenue Service is telling companies they will need to start electronically filing their forms reporting cash payments over $10,000, starting Jan. 1, 2024.

Billions of dollars later, the agency is claiming major improvements in service, technology and enforcement.

Taxpayers who aren't under examination have a new option that promises to make it easier to request relief when they need to file international tax forms and documents past a deadline.

The Treasury Department is trying to modernize the badly outdated agency in a bid to improve customer service and ramp up enforcement.

The case management system is making it more convenient for tax attorneys to electronically file documents simultaneously in consolidated groups of cases.

As the Direct File program takes shape, learning from taxpayers will be paramount.

The service has started holding discussions with advocacy groups on the direct file tax system it plans to begin testing early next year.

The American Institute of CPAs sent its members to visit lawmakers on Capitol Hill to advocate for various bills.

Commissioner Daniel Werfel said the service plans to begin a pilot early next tax season.

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With the final stats from this year's filing in, it seems clear that it was one of the most normal in years.

From accidentally paying state taxes on T-bill income to wonky filing deadlines, these tips will help make a federal tax return sparkle. Or at least clean.