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California taxpayers may be interested to know that the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) recently released its annual report on whether the IRS is in compliance with Section 6501(c)(4)(B) of the Tax Code. The IRS is supposed to give taxpayers...
The IRS is contacting small businesses based on a determination that close to $450 billion of taxes goes uncollected and approximately $140,000 billion of that amount is owed by small businesses. By identifying small businesses with high credit card sales, the IRS is...
The number of individuals with special needs is on the rise. Whether this is due to better recognition and diagnostic tools or an actual escalation in disabilities, the increase is taking its toll on state and local government program budgets. Such shortfalls require...
The IRS offers a free online interactive program entitled "Understanding Taxes." Designed in partnership with teachers for use in middle school, high school, or community college classrooms, the program can be used by anyone to learn about the history, theory, and...
The United States is one of the only countries that tax the earnings of its citizens that are earned in another country. As such, the IRS often deals with foreign banks in order to discover accounts of Americans who are avoiding paying taxes on foreign earnings. Since...
This week, the IRS issued proposed regulations that would make permanent rules to extend the amount of time taxpayers can apply for equitable relief through an innocent spouse application. Under the proposed rules, taxpayers would have up to ten years - or generally,...
The IRS has released Publication 1304 which reports on statistical data from a sampling of the 145.4 million individual income tax returns filed for tax year 2011. Tax filings are up, adjusted gross income has risen and IRS collections continue to increase. The report...
The United States has agreed to forego criminal prosecution against the bank, Liechtensteinsche Landesbank AG, for opening and maintaining bank accounts for U.S. taxpayers from 2001 through 2011 and assisting U.S. taxpayers in evading their U.S. tax obligations. In...
A gift basket company and its founder were sued by the IRS just days before Christmas back in 2011. The IRS filed the case saying that the company was not entitled to tax refunds it received for the 2005 and 2006 tax years. In July of this year, a U.S. District Court...
A man will soon be transported by the U.S. Marshals Service to the Central District of California to face charges involving tax fraud and identify theft. The IRS Criminal Investigation division conducted the investigation that led to the man's indictment on tax...
