"As a business owner, Billy knows first-hand how government regulation and heavy taxes can affect the small businesses that serve as the economic engine of our country," his campaign site noted. While Long isn't an accountant or CPA, he has been involved in tax advising since leaving Congr...
Tax collectors figuring out what you owe them is all the rage in Denmark, Spain and Sweden, the investigative website said. All that convenience and $2 billion in taxpayers savings, according to the bill’s authors, Democratic Congressmen Bill Foster and Mike Quigley of Illinois, a state tha...
Congress made it mandatory for tax preparers who file 10 or more individual income tax returns to file electronically in 2009. In 2010, the IRS ceased mailing out copies of that year'sForm 1040(learn about thehistory of Form 1040) and has instead made them available online. In 2011, e-f...
Congress has criticized the IRS on its position in no uncertain terms. One day after the ruling was released, the Senate Finance Committee issued a bipartisanstatementaffirming that their intent in the CARES Act was not to deny taxpayers these deductions, urging the IRS to reconsider its position...
The IRS, which has suffered its own embarrassing data breaches as well as a tidal wave of tax-identity fraud, has taken steps to improve its outdated information technology with the help of $106.4 million that Congress earmarked for cyber security upgrades and identity theft prevention efforts. ...
[3]See IRS, IRS Selects 10 New Members for Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee, IR-2020-208 (Sept. 11, 2020).[4]ETAAC 2019 Annual Report to Congress, IRS Publication 3415 (Rev. 6-2019), at iv.[5]See U.S. Dep’t of Justice, Stolen Identi...
IRS Watch - IRS Roundup: 2010 Enforcement Statistics, Paid Preparer Visits and the National Taxpayer Advocate Report to Congress Jim McNiff is Senior Consultant with the Tax Controversy Services Group in the Washington National Tax Office of Deloitte Tax LLP. increasing the number of... K Petron...
Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee (ETAAC) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Oversight Board on the development of electronic filling. The IRS Oversight Board recommended that the electronic filling be extended by the Congress to 2012. Furthermore, the board also emphasized that ...
learned at a meeting that conservative groups were being targeted, according to the IG report. The division subsequently switched to more general search criteria. Six months later, she met with some members of Congress to discuss the issue, but didn't bring up the targeting of conservative group...
House Republicans, sensing a useful political issue, are trying to harness public concern to their ideas on overall tax reform.House Ways and Means Committee chairman Bill Archer of Texas says he will bring an IRS reform bill to the House floor before Congress adjourns. "If last week's ...