Taxpayers have been receiving letters with incorrect Identity Protection PIN numbers from the IRS. Notices are listing an incorrect filing year, the agency reported, which has created confusion for many taxpayers and tax professionals. According to a statement updated...
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New IRS Videos Help International Taxpayers With Their U.S. Tax Filing Questions
Paying U.S. taxes while overseas doesn't have to be difficult with this year's improved IRS.gov help guides. In addition to the standard International Taxpayer page, U.S. citizens and other international taxpayers living outside the U.S. can now watch videos to learn...
Opening Day of Tax Season is January 19
The Internal Revenue Service announced last week that tax season will begin on Tuesday, January 19, 2016. That is the day the IRS will begin accepting individual electronic returns and processing paper returns. The last day to file 2015 tax returns is Monday, April...
National Taxpayer Advocate Releases 2015 Annual Report
On January 6, 2016, National Taxpayer Advocate Nine E. Olson released her 2015 annual report to Congress. Central to the report is Ms. Olson's concern that the IRS may be close to greatly scaling back the telephone and face-to-face service that the IRS has continually...
Significant Changes to IRS Partnership Audit Rules
On November 2, 2015, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 was signed into law, the text of which can be found here. Among the provisions related to tax compliance, the Act imposes significant changes to the manner in which the IRS will determine audit adjustments related...
IRS Unveils Payroll Tax New Early Interaction Initiative
The Internal Revenue Service has launched a new initiative "designed to more quickly identify employers who are falling behind on their payroll or employment taxes and then help them get caught up on their payment and reporting responsibilities."The initiative will...
IRS Criminal Investigation Report reflects IRS focus on identity theft, money laundering, public corruption, cybercrime, and terrorist financing
Today the IRS announced the release of the Criminal Investigation 2015 Annual Report. The report covers current investigative priorities, statistics on investigations and prosecutions, staffing decreases, summaries of high profile prosecutions, and a variety of other...
IRS Proposed Regulation Defines “Husband” and “Wife”
The IRS now recognizes same-sex marriage for income tax purposes as well as estate, gift, generation-skipping and employment tax, following the recent Supreme Court holding that state bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional, Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 US ___...
IRS Thwarts Identity Theft through W-2 Authenticity Verification
The IRS continues to battle identity theft of taxpayers and is proactive for 2016 filing with its authenticity verification test when taxpayers e-file their income tax returns. The IRS is working with specific Payroll Service Providers to use a verification code on a...
IRPAC Issues Annual Report – Recommendations Include Improving the Penalty Abatement Process
The IRS' federal advisory committee, known as the Information Reporting Program Advisory Committee (IRPAC), has issued its 2015 report identifying several areas in need of improvement including a revision of certain forms, improvements to the IRS use of FAQs and...
