The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently announced that, starting May 13, 2019, only natural persons with a Social Security number or an individual taxpayer identification number may request an EIN as the "responsible party" on the application. Entities will no...
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TIGTA Releases Interim Report on 2019 Filing Season
The Treasury Inspector General of Tax Administration (TIGTA) recently released its interim report on the 2019 federal tax filing season. As of March 1, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had received over 59 million tax returns and issued approximately $142...
Taxpayer First Act Seeks Structural Reform for IRS
The House Way and Mean Committee is working on a bill that would overhaul Internal Revenue Service (IRS) operations, appeals, and taxpayer services. The Taxpayer First Act faltered in the Senate Finance Committee last April, but a bipartisan group of lawmakers...
IRS Makes Panera Bread Foundation Give Up the Dough
Beginning in 2010, the Panera Bread Foundation, a non-profit related to the popular restaurant chain, piloted a limited experiment in the "gift economy," whereby customers could "pay it forward" or "pay-what-you-can" at select cafes. The experiment, unfortunately,...
Deadline Approaches for 2015 Non-Filers to Claim $1.4 Billion in Federal Refunds
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) estimates that it has nearly $1.4 billion in unclaimed income tax refunds due to about 1.2 million taxpayers who failed to file a 2015 Form 1040. The deadline to claim these funds is this year's return filing deadline, April 15,...
Beware of New IRS Phone Scam
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued a warning about a new phone scam involving fake calls from the Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS). Tax scammers are using "spoofed" TAS phone numbers to contact potential victims to obtain personal information and...
IRS Launches New “Dirty Dozen” List of Tax Scams for 2019
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently kicked off its annual "Dirty Dozen" awareness campaign to alert taxpayers to common tax scams. Topping the list in 2019 are new variations on phishing schemes that use "legitimate-looking emails with fake, but convincing...
California Tax Attorney Confirmed as New IRS Chief Counsel
After a two-year vacancy, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has a Chief Counsel again. Michael Desmond, a California tax attorney originally nominated by President Donald Trump last year, was confirmed 83-15 today by the Senate to oversee regulation...
IRS Awaits Confirmation of Chief Counsel
The U.S. Senate is scheduled to vote to confirm Michael Desmond as Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Chief Counsel as soon as this week, and to IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig, confirmation would be a benefit to the tax agency. "Having a confirmed chief counsel is...
Gig Workers and Self-Employment Tax Compliance a New Focus for the IRS
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) recently reported on self-employment tax compliance in light of the growth of the gig economy. The IRS last estimated that self-employment taxes accounted for $69 billion of the annual tax gap. TIGTA...
