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IRS says Apply Now If You Want To E-File: Tax professionals who would like to e-file tax returns for their clients during 2003 should file their applications soon, says the Internal Revenue Service. The form must be submitted by those new to the e-file program and by those who need to update prior applications.
December 16 -
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JEC - Income Sag Began in 2000: The strong upward movement in real cash median household income during the last half of the 1990s came to an abrupt end in 2000, not 2001, according to Joint Economic Committee Chairman Jim Saxton.
November 25 -
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by George G. Jones and Mark A. Luscombe
November 4 -
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by George G. Jones and Mark A. Luscombe
October 20 -
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EZ Tax Filing Moves Ahead: The EZ Tax Filing initiative is moving ahead, with the Internal Revenue Service fielding both positive and negative reactions during the comment period, which ended Sept. 4.
October 6 -
by George G Jones and Mark A. Luscombe
October 6 -
IRS Continues Crackdown, Sues for Disclosure of Offshore Accounts: Continuing its crackdown on offshore accounts, the Internal Revenue Service went to court in an effort to force more than 40 companies, including AOL Time Warner, eBay and American Airlines, to surrender information on customers that the agency suspects are hiding income in offshore accounts.
September 22 -
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Times change. Many practitioners who considered themselves on the cutting edge several years ago when they found and implemented aggressive tax-planning strategies are now concerned that someone at the Internal Revenue Service, or even the Securities and Exchange Commission, may second-guess the propriety of their past activities.
September 21 -
by George G. Jones and Mark A. Luscombe
August 31 -
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Big Increase in High AGI Returns: The number of income tax returns reporting adjusted gross income of $200,000 or more increased 16.5 percent from 1998 to 1999, according to the latest issue of the Statistics of Income Bulletin.
August 18 -
by George G. Jones and Mark A. Luscombe
August 18 -
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IRS disregards privacy, says IPI: The recent release by the Internal Revenue Service of confidential tax data on many prominent United States citizens, including a current candidate for governor of California, demonstrates the IRS’s total disregard for the privacy of U.S. taxpayers, according to Tom Giovanetti, president of the Institute for Policy Innovation, a nonprofit public policy research organization based in Dallas.
August 4