Tax practice

The Internal Revenue Service has released the 2015 inflation-adjusted deduction limitations for annual contributions to a health savings account.

In a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on March 17 and scheduled for a hearing April 23, Michael Clarke and his partners in Dynamo Holdings LP argued that they are entitled to a limited evidentiary hearing to show that summonses were issued improperly by the IRS as retribution for their refusal to extend a statute of limitations.

The Internal Revenue Service and other U.S. agencies awarded about $415,000 in contracts to a license plate-tracking company before Homeland Security leaders dropped a plan for similar work amid privacy complaints.

The IRS has begun accepting registrations for its 2014 Nationwide Tax Forums, and is offering discounted registrations to those who sign up early.

While an award program for IRS employees complies with federal regulations, some employees with tax and conduct issues received awards, according to a report released publicly by TIGTA.

Smaller budgets have hurt the Internal Revenue Service’s performance, according to a new government report.

Ah, tax season. We look forward to it all year! Or expect it all year, or dread it…let’s just say we are all aware of this annual event.

The IRS has some advice for taxpayers who may have missed the April 15 tax filing deadline.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

As the number of large partnerships involving 100 or more direct partners continues to grow, the Internal Revenue Service is taking a closer look at them, according to a new government report.

The Internal Revenue Service has arranged to pay Microsoft extra money to continue to support its old Windows XP computers beyond the cutoff date that Microsoft has imposed for supporting the old operating system.

The Internal Revenue Service is anticipating the chances of a tax return being audited to be the lowest in years.

The accounting and advisory firm Baker Tilly Virchow Krause has introduced an interactive online mapping tool that helps users determine if a business or development project may qualify under various criteria for the New Markets Tax Credit or Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program.

The RNC has filed a lawsuit against the IRS for withholding records sought by a 2013 Freedom of Information Act request.

Despite the late start to tax season, the Internal Revenue Service generally kept pace with last year, according to a government report.

For taxpayers who owe taxes with their tax returns, the IRS has provided ten tips about how to pay.

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

A pair of senators have called on the Social Security Administration to end the policy of seizing taxpayers’ refunds to hold them accountable for decades-old errors made by the agency that led to the overpayment of benefits, and the agency has agreed to do so.

The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing last week to discuss the perennial issue of the tax extenders, the temporary tax provisions that expire year after year and are usually renewed.

President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, reported adjusted gross income of $481,098 for 2013, down 21 percent from last year, according to tax returns released yesterday by the White House.