The IRS is warning taxpayers to avoid a site claiming to assist taxpayers in filing for free through the “Free File Alliance.” You can only access Free File through the IRS website at www.irs.gov. In the scam, various web sites claim to work with the Free File Alliance, a partnership between 19 tax software companies…
Yeah, it’s not what you’re thinking. It’s IRS. We’re in the thick of law student resume season. I know because we’re getting tons of resumes at our firm from law students looking for jobs in the tax field. Consider IRS. I clerked there while in law school and I had a blast. You can’t get…
IRS Revenue Agent Harry Willner, 59, of Fair Lawn, New Jersey, is currently awaiting trial in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, after being indicted on four counts of aiding or assisting in the preparation of false tax returns and one count of attempt to interfere with the administration of the Internal…
And another three on the list of positions not to take on your individual income tax return as determined by IRS: 7. Only certain types of taxpayers are subject to income and employment taxes, such as employees of the Federal government, corporations, nonresident aliens, or residents of the District of Columbia or the Federal territories,…
And another two on the list of positions not to take on your individual income tax return as determined by IRS: 10. A taxpayer is not a “person” within the meaning of section 7701(a)(14) or other provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, or similar arguments described as frivolous in Rev. Rul. 2007-22, 2007-14 I.R.B. ___….
Taxpayer asks: Have seen many 4-digit codes on “Where’s my Refund?” Do you have the de-coder ring? Specifically, what does 1301 and 1201 mean? Taxgirl says: According to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 1201 is a “catch-all” code when no other code applies and 1301 is a code that means that a prior return is…
As posted before, you may have a day or so extra to file your taxes this year. The IRS confirmed that the tax deadline this year will be Tuesday, April 17, 2007, for all taxpayers. The extra time is because April 15 falls on a Sunday in 2007, and the following day is a holiday…
The IRS announced last week that the Free File program for eligible taxpayers is now available. The program lets taxpayers with an Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) of $52,000 or less for tax year 2006 e-file their federal tax returns for free (and here you thought that nothing was free). This means that 70% of all…
Do you qualify for a refund of the telephone excise tax but aren’t required to file an annual tax return? It may be even easier for you to get a refund. The IRS has developed an even shorter form, the 1040EZ-T (try saying that quickly three times in a row) that you might be able…
Among the laundry list of costs rising to taxpayers, including fees, comes a little good news: no rising interest rates for the first quarter of 2007. Yes, it’s a little relative. But still good to see. The IRS announced on yesterday that there will be no change in the interest rates for the first calendar…