Practice management

The IRS has not established a service-wide approach to managing effective authentication processes and procedures for individual taxpayers’ identities, according to a new report.

It’s time to revamp the Earned Income Tax Credit, tax professionals say -– though they don’t necessarily agree on how.

Bay Area rapper Kreayshawn tweeted out her tax troubles after discovering that the IRS had apparently cleaned out her bank reports.

Ineffective monitoring of refunds and a computer programming error caused the Internal Revenue Service to issue more than $46 million in erroneous refunds, according to a new report.

The IRS has announced that interest rates will remain the same for the calendar quarter beginning Jan. 1, 2016, as in the previous quarter.

The Internal Revenue Service will begin accepting individual tax returns on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016, it announced today.

The omnibus spending bill signed into law last week gives the Internal Revenue Service an additional $290 million in funds – but it must be spent only taxpayer services and efforts against tax-related identity theft.

The PTIN system will be down for approximately two to three hours for necessary maintenance beginning at 8 a.m. EST on Monday, Dec. 21, as well as a few days over New Year's.

The Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 extends a number of important tax breaks, and makes many of them permanent.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Edmond de Rothschild (Suisse) SA agreed to pay $45.4 million to avoid prosecution for helping U.S. clients evade taxes.

Congress passed a $1.1 trillion spending measure that extends a number of important tax provisions, and makes several of them permanent.

The IRS has issued the 2016 optional standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes.

Ask any accountant in the country about “client service,” and you’ll be hard pressed to find one who does not consider it to be important.

With the advent of the Nanny Tax in 1994, it became a little more complicated for a family to hire a nanny, housekeeper or senior caregiver.

The House has approved tax extenders legislation that makes a number of the periodically expiring tax breaks into permanent features of the tax code.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

A set of delays on Obamacare-related taxes in the new federal spending bill will give corporate earnings a modest boost but are unlikely to undo the law or produce significant changes in the health-care industry.

Wolters Kluwer has introduced two new learning certification programs for tax professionals.