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(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 […]
document.createElement(‘aside’); http://www.accountingtoday.com Print Email Reprints The Internal Revenue Service has revised Form 3115, Application for Change in Accounting Method, and its instructions, for the first time since 2009. In Announcement 2016-14, the IRS said Form 3115 (Rev. December 2015) replaces the December 2009 version. The announcement also provides a transition period and transition guidance. To […]
The Internal Revenue Service is having trouble coordinating various overlapping programs that deal with referrals on tax evasion, in part because the referrals have to be submitted on paper forms, manually screened and then mailed to various departments within the IRS. A new report from the Government Accountability Office examined the coordination between the IRS’s […]
Benjamin Franklin was a smart guy when he said back in 1789, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” He hit the nail right on the head. A new year is upon us, and what does that mean? Another tax season! Taxes have definitely changed over the years […]
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