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A group of Senate Republicans, led by Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee, is asking the IRS to do all it can to help taxpayers this season. In a letter Thursday to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig, the lawmakers asked
The Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday it is suspending more than a dozen automated letters it sends out to taxpayers, including collection notices, balance due notices and unfiled tax return notices, after coming under pressure from lawmakers and tax professionals to first catch up on its backlog of unprocessed returns.
The Internal Revenue Service backtracked Monday from a plan to use facial recognition software from a third-party company for taxpayer authentication after hearing criticism from lawmakers in both parties as well as privacy advocates. The IRS said the transition would occur over the coming weeks to prevent larger disruptions for
The IRS wants some weekend facetime. The service has added special Saturday hours at many Taxpayer Assistance Centers nationwide, in what it bills part of a larger effort for this year’s tax season. IRS employees will be on hand to field questions about tax bills, audits or other tax problems
The National Association of Black Accountants has entered a strategic alliance with the Diverse Organization of Firms. The goal of the partnership is to increase the representation of Black business leaders, entrepreneurs and financial services firm owners. The groups also hope to address structural obstacles in the corporate marketplace and
The National Association of Black Accountants has entered a strategic alliance with the Diverse Organization of Firms. The goal of the partnership is to increase the representation of Black business leaders, entrepreneurs and financial services firm owners. The groups also hope to address structural obstacles in the corporate marketplace and
One slick customer; give her credit; unhappy camper; and other highlights of recent tax cases. New York: Todd Kozel, former CEO of a multinational foreign oil company, has been sentenced to five years in prison following his guilty plea to five counts of willful failure to file individual income tax
WithumSmith+Brown, a Top 25 Firm based in Princeton, New Jersey, has merged in Martini Partners LLC, a firm in Encino, California, enabling the firm to expand to Los Angeles. As part of the deal, founding partner Steve Martini, managing partner Christopher Passmore and assurance practice leader Kevin Holmes, along with
The Internal Revenue Service is urging people to use the information in their online taxpayer accounts for the most up-to-date figures on the amount of the advance Child Tax Credit to include on their tax returns, instead of the numbers stated in the letters it has been sending and in
