Tax practice

A pair of senators have introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at expanding the use of S corporation employee stock ownership plans, or S ESOPs, to encourage more Americans to save for retirement.

The Internal Revenue Service needs a long-term strategy to improve the interactive services it offers online, according to a new government report.

The Internal Revenue Service does not always recognize and properly investigate signs of tax fraud, according to a new report, foregoing at least millions of dollars in potential fraud penalties.

The Internal Revenue Service granted a three-month tax filing and payment extension to Boston-area taxpayers and others affected by Monday’s explosions at the Boston Marathon.

The Internal Revenue Service is struggling to respond to an onslaught of tax returns filed on April 15, which is delaying acknowledgements to both federal and state returns.

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing Tuesday on moving forward with solutions to tax fraud and tax identity theft as they grappled with an expanding problem that has plagued recent tax seasons.

A pair of Congressmen have introduced legislation that would allow the Internal Revenue Service to provide taxpayers with a tax form already containing information received from employers and banks to streamline the tax prep process.

A former Internal Revenue Service agent-turned-tax preparer has been sentenced to nearly 24 years in prison for defrauding his tax clients out of more than $11 million and then hiring a hit man to kill them to prevent them from testifying about the theft.

Since the Tax Reform Act of 1986 few closely held businesses have been structured as C corporations.

The state tax sites of Colorado, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Utah and Virginia are the easiest for taxpayers to use in terms of transparency, according to evaluations by the Tax Foundation.

Small businesses are more likely to comply with the tax laws if they are in certain comunities of the country and if they have more trust in their tax preparer, according to a report by the Taxpayer Advocate Service.

The Internal Revenue Service said Monday that it would provide tax penalty relief to anyone unable to file on time due to severe storms in parts of the South and Midwest over the past few days.

Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, introduced legislation on tax deadline day to close offshore tax loopholes for corporations and encourage greater financial transparency.

Married same-sex couples are awaiting a decision by the Supreme Court to help them resolve their tax-filing challenges on tax day.

CCH has released a new tax briefing analyzing President Obama’s fiscal year 2014 budget and the tax ramifications of the President’s proposals.

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama earned $608,611 in adjusted gross income in 2012, down 23 percent from 2011 as royalties from Obama’s books continued to decline, tax returns released today showed.

The Internal Revenue Service said Friday its Office of Professional Responsibility has disbarred a California-based CPA for “charging unconscionable fees, giving irresponsible advice to clients and making false statements to federal and state authorities, among other things.”

The American Institute of CPAs has sent congressional leaders a set of legislative proposals for reforming the civil tax penalty provisions of the Tax Code, arguing that some penalties are disproportionately severe and punish innocent conduct.

After initially filing a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, the advocacy group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a rulemaking petition with the agency asking the IRS to revise its existing regulations to eliminate a loophole that allows certain tax-exempt groups to engage in substantial political activity while keeping the identities of their donors secret.

Two New Jersey tax preparers have pleaded guilty to preparing false tax returns.