The latest straight from the IRS — new rules, deadlines, guidance, and announcements explained in plain English.
Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin helped kick off the third annual Law Enforcement Awards ceremony for the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). The 2017 award recipients included Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), recognized for its work with cyberthreats.
Applying for financial aid isn’t going to be as bad as feared this year after all. The Department of Education Department has agreed to allow colleges and universities more flexibility to use as part of their verification procedures while the Data Retrieval Tool (DRT) is unavailable.
Can IRS Commissioner Koskinen peek at President Trump’s tax returns? Can he peek at yours? Here’s what you need to know about how the IRS protects your taxpayer data from unauthorized access.
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen has advised that up to 100,000 taxpayers may have been compromised as thieves attempted to access info using the Data Retrieval Tool (DRT). The DRT allows students & their parents to transfer tax data to a financial aid application.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Federal Student Aid (FSA) have announced that the Data Retrieval Tool (DRT) on fafsa.gov and StudentLoans.gov will remain unavailable until extra security protections can be added.
The IRS is trying again to make Coinbase turn over information about certain of its account holders. Citing data that it suggests proves noncompliance with tax laws, IRS wants to review data from U.S. Coinbase account holders who traded in bitcoin from 2013 to 2015.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced some filing relief for taxpayers affected by Winter Storm Stella.
If you’re working on that Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) application and hoping to use the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Data Retrieval Tool, the tool is currently unavailable. The IRS says it is working to resolve the issue.
Need help this tax season? The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program is offered at nearly 12,000 preparation sites across the country and focuses on tax assistance for low- and moderate-income taxpayers and the elderly.
Each year, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issues a list of common tax schemes and scams they call the “Dirty Dozen.” Taxpayers can fall victim to these scams at any time but they tend to peak during tax filing season. Here’s a summary of this year’s “Dirty Dozen.”