On Saturday, June 5, approximately 200 IRS Taxpayer Assistance Centers will host an open house to provide help to individual taxpayers dealing with notices and payments, return preparation and a variety of other tax issues. Each office will be open from 9:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. local time. Click here for a list of participating offices.
Kelly Phillips Erb, known as Taxgirl, is a tax attorney, writer, and speaker who explains tax news, IRS updates, scams, financial crime, and money in plain English.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has voted to censure Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen over obstruction claims. Specifically, Koskinen was accused of misconduct related to an investigation into IRS targeting of groups seeking tax-exempt status.
Taxpayer asks: I had my tax returns prepared, and I don’ t think the CPA did a good job. I have not signed the forms nor have i provided the original copies of my various financial statements. Can I ask someone else to do them and discard the “first draft”? Thank you. taxgirl says: Absolutely….
Taxes from A to Z (2014): Y is for Yacht.
It’s 2018: Do you know what your tax rate looks like? The Tax Jobs and Cuts Act (TCJA) was signed into law last year, with the promise that most taxpayers would get a tax break. However, the General Accounting Office (GAO) is warning that, unless taxpayers act to adjust their withholding, more than thirty million taxpayers will…
Each year, several states offer a “holiday” from sales tax in order to increase spending before school begins. Here are some sales tax holidays that I’m aware of. As the mother of three children, I can appreciate this nod towards back to school spending. And according to the National Retail Federation, families with school-age children…
Seven former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) commissioners have signed onto a joint letter to Congress speaking out against further reductions in the IRS’ fiscal year 2015 budget. In the letter, the commissioners note that cuts of $838 million in the House and $470 million in the Senate would be the sixth year of cuts in…