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The Internal Revenue Service has issued a notice proposing a revenue procedure that, if finalized, would provide an optional safe harbor method for individual taxpayers to determine a wagering gain or loss from certain slot machine play.

Payroll and HR technology giant ADP is offering accountants and their small-business clients free access this tax season to the ADP HR HelpDesk through April 30, 2015.

Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee released a new report Tuesday, “How Tax Pros Make the Code Less Fair and Efficient: Several New Strategies and Solutions,” in conjunction with a hearing on “Fairness in Taxation.”

The Internal Revenue Service is continuing its enforcement push against refund fraud and identity theft, and today announced the Top Ten Identity Theft Prosecutions for Fiscal Year 2014.

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The Internal Revenue Service’s Large Business & International division has opened a gateway that financial institutions and the tax authorities abroad can use to send information on financial accounts held by U.S. taxpayers in accordance with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act.

The Internal Revenue Service is auditing the taxes of fewer businesses as a result of budget cuts in recent years.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said he plans to introduce legislation to deny undocumented immigrants who qualify under President Obama’s executive action on immigration reform the ability to claim the Earned Income Tax Credit for previous years.

The Internal Revenue Service said Monday that farmers and fishermen who miss this year’s March 2 tax deadline because they are receiving corrected premium tax credit forms from the Healthcare.gov health insurance marketplace will have until April 15, 2015, to file their 2014 returns and pay any tax due.

The Internal Revenue Service has released a notice that provides guidance to employers on the requirements for employee consents used by an employer to support a claim for refund of over-collected Social Security tax and Medicare tax.

Gilead Sciences Inc., whose $1,000-a-pill hepatitis C treatment is one of the world’s most expensive drugs, is avoiding billions of dollars in U.S. taxes by booking profits overseas.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases, including the scammers who targeted the head of a state tax agency.

The Internal Revenue Service has changed the mailing address for Form 3115, Application for Change in Accounting Method.

The determination of fair value of machinery and equipment assets for financial reporting purposes should include the consideration of three forms of depreciation: physical, economic and functional.

The IRS has issued nearly 40 million tax refunds worth almost $125 billion for this season as of February 20.

The owner of several Liberty Tax Service franchises has been arrested after he was caught by police in the act of trying to drown his baby in a sink after brutally assaulting his wife.

New York City’s Department of Consumer Affairs found Thursday that one in four tax preparers do not comply with the city’s Consumer Protection Law.

You've met them: The taxpayer who calls or drops in just to see if you offer the lowest price for tax prep – or worse, just to confirm that the price they’ve found elsewhere really is the lowest.

A January bombing that was originally thought to be targeting a local NAACP headquarters was actually carried out by a man upset at his accountant, according to published reports.