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e-Services To Be Down For Maintenance

ByKelly Phillips Erb August 19, 2019August 19, 2019

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) E-Services will be unavailable on Monday, August 19 and Wednesday, August 21, 2019, from approximately 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. Eastern time due to planned maintenance.

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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.

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IRS Announces 2012 Mileage Rates
ByKelly Phillips Erb December 9, 2011May 26, 2020

The IRS has issued the 2012 optional standard mileage rates used for deducting the costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes. They are: 55.5 cents per mile for business miles driven 23 cents per mile driven for medical or moving purposes 14 cents per mile driven in service of charitable…

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IRS, CRA Take Dramatically Different Positions On Heartbleed Security Concerns
ByKelly Phillips Erb April 10, 2014July 29, 2020

With security and privacy concerns mounting about the Heartbleed bug, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has temporarily shut down its online filing options. What does IRS say about it?

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IRS Offers Guidance For Taxpayers Impacted By Software Issue
ByKelly Phillips Erb May 15, 2019October 27, 2019

This week marks tax deadlines for some taxpayers – including tax-exempt organizations on a calendar tax year-end – but software outages caused concern that filings might not be timely. In response, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is offering guidance for impacted taxpayers. Unlike last year’s glitch, this outage isn’t an IRS issue. On May 6, Wolters Kluwer…

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IRS Says Illegal Account Access Worse Than Originally Thought: 220,000 More Taxpayers Affected
ByKelly Phillips Erb August 17, 2015

Earlier this year, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that identity thieves illegally accessed tax information tied to approximately 114,000 taxpayers with unsuccessful attempts made on about 111,000 additional taxpayer accounts. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen delivered the news at a hastily arranged press conference on May 26, 2015, to alert taxpayers to the breach. At…

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IRS Seeks Volunteers For Taxpayer Advocacy Panel
ByKelly Phillips Erb March 19, 2010May 19, 2020

The Taxpayer Advocacy Panel is seeking members in the following locations: California, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Washington. Alternates are needed for Alabama, the District of Columbia, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, New York, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming. Applications…

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IRS Nationwide Tax Forum Scheduled For July
ByKelly Phillips Erb June 18, 2019October 27, 2019

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has scheduled its 2019 Nationwide Tax Forum season. The first forum, planned for July 9-11, 2019, in National Harbor, Maryland, will focus on tax reform changes and cybersecurity tips for tax professionals. Tax lawyers, Enrolled Agents (EAs), Certified Public Accountants (CPAs), Certified Financial Planners (CFPs), Annual Filing Season Program participants,…

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