As tax day creeps even closer, the IRS reminds you that their web site is http://www.irs.gov. That’s right, .gov. Not .com, .edu, .org, .net or any other variation on a theme.
And exercise caution with respect to emails purporting to be from IRS. As the IRS has announced before, it will never send you an email and ask for personal information over the internet.
You remember when you were little and you would keep checking the sky for snow clouds on the off chance that you got a snow day? Welcome to the grown-up version: checking the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) web site for sequestration news. But, like your mom, I’m going to give you the bad news, and…
Sometimes it pays to file early. Remember that embarrassing admission a few days ago that up to 800,000 taxpayers who purchased health insurance through the Marketplace (healthcare.gov) had received botched tax statements? Forms 1095-A, used primarily to determine health care credits, were mailed out using the wrong numbers for the 2014 tax year. About 50,000…
Trying to reach IRS over the long weekend? Hoping to use e-Services to file by the extension, match a TIN or other service? You’re out of luck until Tuesday.
As reported previously, the IRS will be stepping up efforts to curb election year campaign activities from nonprofit organizations following a particularly active 2004 election season that saw all manner of controversy ranging from targeting church speeches to the infamous Swift boat ads. The IRS released a statement reminding charitable organizations that, as a rule,…
And he’s outta here! Earlier today, Acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Steven T. Miller offered his resignation to President Obama. The resignation was issued amid a scandal that has plagued the IRS in recent days – and put the Obama administration in clear scramble mode. There have been calls for criminal charges (though for what…
For as long as I’ve been banging away on the keyboard about tax and tax policy, I don’t believe I’ve seen anything more polarizing than the “new” health care act which was signed into law last year. From the so-called Cadillac plans to the increased 1099 reporting requirements, no single piece of legislation has generated…