Tax practice

Millions of dollars in refundable tax credits that were determined to be erroneous after taxpayers received them may never be recovered by the Internal Revenue Service, but the IRS plans to clamp down on erroneous and fraudulent claims for tax breaks such as the Earned Income Tax Credit.

The IRS has issued a revenue ruling on the determination of issue prices in the case of certain debt instruments issued for property

The Latino market for tax prep could be big for tax preparers who go about entering it correctly, according to Carlos Lopez, executive director of the Latino Tax Professionals Association in Salinas, Calif.

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The Internal Revenue Service has implemented two separate clarifying changes to its temporary procedures for issuing Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers to noncitizens with tax extensions and many foreign students.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to improve the timeliness and accuracy of the audit results posted to taxpayer accounts, according to a new government report.

The Internal Revenue Service said Thursday that more than two dozen tax provisions will be adjusted for inflation for tax year 2013.

A Southern California tax preparer has been sentenced to five years in prison for preparing and filing false tax returns.

Approximately 1.45 million taxpayers who qualified for relief from tax penalties totaling close to $181 million never heard from the Internal Revenue Service that they were entitled to it and never received it, according to a new government report.

President Barack Obama and his Republican rival, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, engaged in a lively and at times ferocious debate that covered a range of topics, including taxes, the economy, Libya and women’s health.

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In the first part of our interview with Carlos Lopez of the Latino Tax Professionals Association, he discusses the enormous growth in the Hispanic market

A circuit court has ruled that severance payments given to employees are not taxable, a decision that could have far-reaching implications.

Documenting the skills of its information technology workforce will allow the Internal Revenue Service to more effectively manage its human resources, according to a report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

Solyndra LLC, the failed solar-panel maker that received a $535 million U.S. Energy Department loan guarantee before going bankrupt, received objections to its bankruptcy plan from the Internal Revenue Service and the Energy Department.

A New Jersey CPA provided whistleblower information to the IRS that the IRS failed to pursue, and he unsuccessfully sued the IRS.

The Internal Revenue Service is paying millions of dollars every year in unnecessary interest payments due to delays in processing net operating loss cases within the required 45 days, according to a new government report.

Facebook has reportedly paid only about $315,000 in taxes in the United Kingdom last year, even though the social networking giant reported U.K. revenues of about $32.8 million and is estimated to have earned over $281 million in the U.K.

Federal charges have been filed against 40 defendants in 20 separate cases in Florida dealing with thousands of stolen identities and millions of dollars of fraudulent identity theft tax filings.

A part-time blogger has been convicted of filing a false income tax return that left out nearly $142,000 in taxes on the income he earned on the side from selling advertising space on his blog.