IRS Asks Taxpayers To Slow Down On Refund Requests
The IRS has announced that extremely high traffic is causing the “Where’s My Refund?” tool to be unavailable for some taxpayers at times this season.
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IRS Announces Revised Filing Dates For Taxpayers Claiming Education Credits, Depreciation
The Internal Revenue Service continues to roll out processing for most federal income tax returns. The IRS announced this week that taxpayers can begin filing federal income tax returns with depreciation and education forms this week. On Sunday, February 10, the IRS will accept tax returns which include federal form 4562, Depreciation and Amortization, and…
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IRS Targets Businesses, Makes Arrests In Massive ID Theft Crackdown
Today, the IRS announced the results of an “aggressive enforcement effort” targeting refund fraud caused by identity theft.
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Taxpayer Alleges IRS Agent Offered Sex In Exchange For Lower Tax Penalties On Audit
Talk about some serious negotiations. A 40-year-old man out of Fall Creek, Oregon, has filed a federal lawsuit against the IRS, alleging that she used her, um, position to sexually harass and intimidate him. The man, Vincent Burroughs, filed the lawsuit on January 25, 2013, against the IRS and Internal Revenue Service agent, Dora Abrahamson….
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IRS Loses Big In Court (Again), Tax Season Chugs Along
On January 18, 2013, a federal court stopped IRS “dead in its tracks” from enforcing its new regulatory scheme for registered tax-return preparers. In response, the IRS filed a motion to stay the injunction – that’s a lawyerly way of saying that the IRS asked the court not to enforce the injunction and to allow…
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IRS Releases Proposed Regs for Health Care Law: Who’s Covered, Who’s Exempt, and What Happens If You Don’t Pay?
The IRS has finally released proposed regulations relating to the requirement to maintain minimum health care insurance coverage under the terms of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, as amended (“ACA”). Under the terms of ACA, there is a “shared responsibility to reform and…
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Pastor Who Refused To Pay Applebee’s Service Charge Becomes Unwitting Poster Child For Server Pay And Tax Issues
So this pastor walks into an Applebee’s… It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke. But really, it was the beginning of a series of bad events.
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Memo Argues IRS Inflated Numbers, Exaggerated Figures
Tax season officially got started yesterday as the Internal Revenue Service began accepting most taxpayer returns. Opening day for the IRS had been delayed by more than a week, following a last-minute tax deal meted out by Congress in early January. That wouldn’t be the only challenge for the agency this month: just days before…
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As IRS Opens Tax Season, Many Taxpayers May Be Able To File For Free
If you’re one of those taxpayers who usually files the second that you have your form W-2 in hand, take heart. Today is finally the day that you can rush down to your tax preparer or fire up the computer to do it yourself. The Internal Revenue Service has already delayed the filing season by…
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IRS Says Taxpayers Claiming Education Breaks Should Expect Delays
With just a few days left before tax season officially opens on January 30, the Internal Revenue Service has announced that there will be a slight delay in processing individual tax returns claiming education credits. Those returns will begin to be processed by the middle of February. Specifically, those taxpayers who are affected are those…
