There’s no start date yet but the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is already gearing up for what’s certain to be a difficult tax season. Noting that the current Tax Code is “very complex,” made more complicated in 2014 with additional FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) and ACA (Affordable Care Act) provisions, IRS Commissioner John…
So, every morning, I surf on over to the IRS website because: (a) I’m a geek like that; and (b) I want to keep on top of the latest tax news. This morning, I got quite the shock. The website is completely re-vamped. Since I hadn’t yet gotten through my first sip of coffee, I…
You might be entitled to a little holiday bling, courtesy of the IRS. It seems that the IRS has checks for 95,746 taxpayers for a total of $92.2 million, refund checks which have been returned as undeliverable. Those checks can be claimed as soon as the taxpayer updates an address with IRS or otherwise makes…
The IRS announced that there were more visits to its web site, www.irs.gov on April 17, 2006, than any other single day in the past. The number of visits reached 3,385,936 as compared to the prior record of 3,337,300 visits on April 15, 2005. But the rush isn’t over yet: the IRS reminds us that…
