Tax practice

National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson plans to make oversight of tax return preparers one of her office’s main priorities in the coming fiscal year.

The IRS has excluded pay-for-performance success payments made under the federal government’s new Home Affordable Modification Program from counting as income.

Victims of recent storms in Alabama and Missouri and wildfires in Oklahoma may qualify for tax relief from the IRS.

A UBS client and chartered accountant has pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return for his 2004 taxes in the latest sign of the IRS’s stepped-up enforcement efforts against the Swiss bank’s U.S. customers.

A new analysis by a former high-ranking IRS official explains how the Tax Code’s corporate reorganization provisions afford tax-free treatment to certain corporate combinations and realignments.

The IRS often fails to send notices of federal tax liens to taxpayer representatives such as accountants, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service has extended the deadline for filing a report on foreign bank accounts to Sept. 23 from the original June 30 deadline as it seeks to crack down on offshore tax havens.

The IRS has not been doing an adequate job of overseeing the acceptance agents who assign Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers to foreign nationals, increasing the risk of tax fraud.

Typical end-of-year tax planning will be on everyone’s minds before you know it.

An IRS advisory committee has recommended that the IRS require all tax preparers who file at least 200 returns a year to use electronic filing.

Just in time for Jon and Kate Gosselin’s impending divorce, the IRS has released a very helpful form.

The IRS has posted a preview of the 1040 for 2009, along with the latest rules for electronically filing the returns.

Despite some decreases in 2008, the IRS’s overall level of compliance activities remains higher than in the years immediately after implementation of the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998.

Four Southern congressmen have written to the IRS asking for casualty loss deductions for homeowners whose property has been damaged by installations of defective Chinese drywall.

Liberty Tax Service, the third largest tax preparer in the U.S., has lost a lawsuit over deceptive ads that California Attorney General Jerry Brown claimed blurred the line between free tax refunds and expensive refund anticipation loans.

The U.S. and Swiss governments have concluded their negotiations over expanding the sharing of tax information to root out tax dodgers, and now plan to sign a protocol in the next few months.

The Senate Finance Committee held hearings to learn more about the tax implications of climate change legislation, including whether companies should be taxed for carbon emission allowances.

The IRS is not using collection tools, including tax liens, levies and property seizures, soon enough in many instances, according to a new report from a Treasury Department watchdog.

A new search engine developed by a California CPA tries to make it easier to find relevant documents on the IRS’s Web site.

A tax preparer has been arrested for stalking and threatening to harm an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan DA’s office.