Tuesday, while millions of Americans were busy finalizing their tax returns, the President named a former IRS criminal investigator as the tax agency’s new leader. Gary Shapley, a former IRS special agent who gained...more
With tax season upon us, taxpayers and tax professionals need to know how to avoid falling prey to fraudulent scams. In this episode of The Presumption of Innocence, Matthew Adams and Matthew Lee, Co-Chairs of Fox’s...more
Following up our post earlier today that the Tax Court will resume receiving mail on July 10, 2020, the Tax Court has issued another announcement regarding its operations. Also beginning on July 10, the Clerk’s Office will...more
As a follow-up to its announcement that the April 15 income tax filing deadline is extended to July 15, the Internal Revenue Service has created a series of Frequently Asked Questions to address common questions that may...more
As a follow-up to our prior post, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have released additional details regarding the extension of the federal income tax filing due date from April 15, 2020, to July 15,...more
Following the lead of the Internal Revenue Service, the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue announced yesterday that the deadline for taxpayers to file their 2019 Pennsylvania personal income tax returns is extended to July...more
The Internal Revenue Service has included tax return preparer fraud on its “Dirty Dozen” list of common tax scams for 2019 and offered tips to help taxpayers avoid unscrupulous tax preparers. With the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,...more
With the 2018 tax filing season in full swing, the Internal Revenue Service today kicked off its annual countdown of the twelve most prevalent tax scams facing taxpayers. Compiled annually by the IRS, the “Dirty Dozen” lists...more
The Internal Revenue Service reopened for business on Monday, January 28, 2019, after having been closed for over one month as a result of the federal government shutdown. On the same day, the IRS opened the 2019 tax filing...more
The Internal Revenue Service announced today that it is providing taxpayers an additional day to file their tax returns following a computer problem that arose early in the morning on April 17, the tax filing deadline....more
With “tax day” fast approaching, the Internal Revenue Service on Friday reminded taxpayers that income from virtual currency transactions is reportable on their income tax returns. As we have previously reported, the IRS has...more
As part of its annual “Dirty Dozen” list of tax scams, the Internal Revenue Service warned taxpayers to avoid falsely inflating deductions or expenses on tax returns. Common areas targeted by unscrupulous tax preparers...more
The Internal Revenue Service has warned taxpayers to avoid making improper claims for business credits, a common scam used by unscrupulous tax preparers. Two common credits targeted for abuse include the research credit and...more
The Internal Revenue Service has warned taxpayers to be alert to unscrupulous return preparers touting inflated tax refunds. According to the IRS, these scam artists frequently prey on older Americans, low-income taxpayers,...more
Continuing its daily “countdown” of the annual “Dirty Dozen” tax schemes, the Internal Revenue Service announced that return preparer fraud is the fourth entry on that esteemed list for 2018. With more than half of the...more
Today the Internal Revenue Service announced the third entry on its annual “dirty dozen” list of the tax schemes most commonly encountered by taxpayers during tax filing season. Even though instances of tax-related identity...more
Today the Internal Revenue Service announced the second entry on its annual “dirty dozen” list of the tax schemes most commonly encountered by taxpayers during tax filing season. The IRS said that aggressive phone scams where...more
With the 2018 tax filing season in full swing, the Internal Revenue Service today announced that it would unveil its annual “Dirty Dozen” tax schemes over the course of the next twelve consecutive days. At the top of this...more
The Internal Revenue Service said today that it successfully started accepting and processing 2017 federal individual income tax returns. More than 155 million returns are expected to be filed this year.
The filing...more
The Internal Revenue Service has reopened, following the three-day federal government shutdown that began at midnight on Friday, January 19, 2018. The following message has been posted on the IRS website instructing all...more
The Internal Revenue Service announced today that the nation’s tax season will begin Monday, January 29, 2018 and reminded taxpayers claiming certain tax credits that refunds won’t be available before late February. The IRS...more
Barely two months after being convicted of running a billion dollar illegal payday lending enterprise, professional racecar driver Scott Tucker was indicted today by a grand jury on federal charges of failing to report...more
Following a relentless flurry of press releases announcing criminal charges against tax evaders in the run up to today’s tax filing deadline, the Justice Department wasted no time in turning its attention to its next target:...more
With less than two weeks until the April 18 deadline for filing individual federal income tax returns, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service are issuing stern warnings to potential tax cheats. Today the U.S....more