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(Bloomberg) The roughly 8 million Americans who live abroad automatically get a couple additional months each year to file their taxes. Don’t expect them to be grateful. Filing to the Internal Revenue Service from overseas is more confusing, complicated and expensive than it is for Americans at home (and that’s saying something). Unlike almost every […]
The Internal Revenue Service released its 2015 IRS Data Book on Wednesday, providing a snapshot of agency activities for the fiscal year. The 2015 Data Book discusses IRS activities from Oct. 1, 2014, to Sept. 30, 2015 and includes information about returns filed, taxes collected, enforcement, taxpayer assistance and the IRS budget and workforce, among […]
[IMGCAP(1)]The Internal Revenue Service has made progress in implementing information security controls, but a new report from the Government Accountability Office finds that weaknesses in the controls limited their effectiveness in protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of financial and sensitive taxpayer data. During fiscal year 2015, the IRS continued to devote attention to securing […]
(Bloomberg) NOTICE OF INTENT TO LEVY It wasn’t a very nice way to begin a letter, but then, it was from the Internal Revenue Service, and it got Greg’s attention. The Athens, Georgia, veteran said the notice, which arrived earlier this year, cited three months of taxes he had failed to pay two years ago—and was the […]
The Internal Revenue Service has been improving its timeliness in responding to taxpayer calls thanks to some extra money from Congress this year. John Koskinen “So far this filing season, the level of service on our toll-free help lines is over 70 percent, and the average for the entire filing season will probably be at […]
document.createElement(‘aside’); http://www.accountingtoday.com Print Email Reprints Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week. The cruelest month looms Tax Girl: The annual “Taxes from A to Z” series continues with F is for Filing Status. No doubt that some days at this point in the season F stands for something else in […]
document.createElement(‘aside’); http://www.accountingtoday.com Print Email Reprints The odds of being criminally prosecuted by the Internal Revenue Service have fallen as a result of budget cuts at the hands of Congress, decreasing from 13.3 per million population in fiscal year 2013 to 9.2 per million in FY 2015, according to new research. The report, from Syracuse University’s […]
(Bloomberg) A Washington-based watchdog group is taking aim at Donald Trump, accusing his foundation of making political contributions that may have violated its status as a tax-exempt charity. Donald Trump (Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg) Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, said that The Donald J. Trump Foundation in September 2013 contributed $25,000 to […]
The House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee is calling on the Internal Revenue Service, the Treasury Department and the Justice Department to return funds wrongly seized from taxpayers during civil asset forfeitures. John Lewis Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill., who chairs the subcommittee, and Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., the ranking Democrat on the subcommittee led all […]
The Internal Revenue Service has issued a notice delaying the estate basis reporting due date from March 31 until June 30, 2016. Notice 2016-27 provides that statements required under section 6035, regarding the basis of property distributed from the estate of a decedent, need not be filed or furnished until June 30, 2016, rather than […]
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