Tax practice

Identity theft protection company LifeLock is reaching out to the Internal Revenue Service and offering technology to protect taxpayers against the threat of tax fraud.

The chairman of an influential congressional subcommittee is demanding information from the Treasury Department on a recent Internal Revenue Service regulation requiring banks to disclose the interest they pay to nonresident aliens.

A former Internal Revenue Service supervisor has been sentenced on tax fraud charges.

Maybe we need tax education as well as tax reform. No matter how simple the Tax Code becomes, it might not be simple enough.

A representative of the American Institute of CPAs told the Internal Revenue Service that the temporary proposed regulations governing the deduction and capitalization of tangible property expenditures are too complex for many taxpayers.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Whistleblower Program Office has still not addressed several problems that were brought to its attention several years ago, according to a new government report.

IMGCAP(1)]The subprime mortgage crash of 2008 created a landslide of foreclosures and short sales which could persist for many years. A whole new industry in short sales has sprung up. All this has left taxpayers and their advisors scrambling for answers on the correct tax consequences.

The Internal Revenue Service is helping law enforcement authorities crack down on drug dealers in the Southern California area.

Banking executives are predicting that the majority of banks will miss the deadlines for complying with new requirements under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act for reporting on foreign bank accounts and assets held by U.S. taxpayers.

A pair of Democratic lawmakers have introduced a bill aimed at reducing taxes for businesses that move jobs back to the U.S.

Edvard Munch, the painter of “The Scream,” was no big fan of the Norwegian tax authorities.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers have introduced legislation that would increase the penalties on tax preparers who defraud taxpayers and the Internal Revenue Service by altering tax returns for personal benefit without their clients’ knowledge.

State tax officials are expanding their concept of what constitutes a taxable economic presence in their state as more economic activity moves online.

Taxpayers whose identities are stolen receive confusing and conflicting instructions from the Internal Revenue Service and delays of up to a year before their tax problems are resolved, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Social Security Administration were urged during a congressional hearing Tuesday to take further steps to curb identity theft-related tax fraud.

What Stephen King's recent article on the Buffett Rule reveals about debates over taxes and government spending in the U.S.

Uncertainty lingers over whether Congress will extend all or some of the tax cuts and incentives set to expire at the end of the year.

The Internal Revenue Service saved approximately $10.2 million in equipment costs in fiscal year 2011 by implementing virtual server technology, according to a new government report.

The General Services Administration is now coming under scrutiny for offering government contractors a tax deduction in exchange for giving the agency 19 percent of the money from the tax break.

Things don’t look so good for Amazon laws. The laws, which are the efforts of states to extend nexus to cover sales from remote vendors, have suffered several setbacks in recent weeks.