The IRS used to boast that taxpayer calls would be answered within 3 minutes. That is no longer true. Take it from me.

After years of slowed collection activity, the IRS Automated Collection System is generating notices, liens, and levies again - and many taxpayers will receive letters about balances they had assumed ...

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted nearly every aspect of American life, including tax administration. During the height of the crisis, the federal government issued sweeping disaster declarations that ...

“Auditing the IRS” is a conversation series featuring IRS watchdog Bruce Willey and tax experts, legislators, former IRS officials and other experts focused on the struggles and future of America’s ...

The COVID pandemic was not our typical federally declared disaster. Most federally declared disasters are announced with a beginning and ending period and for a specified geographic area. The COVID ...

The IRS will develop an electronic system to track missing taxpayer payments, the agency said in response to a watchdog report that found the IRS relies on manual processes to assign and monitor such ...

The IRS’s oversight of billions of dollars in unidentified taxpayer payments would benefit greatly from modernization, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Modernization said in a report late last ...

NEW YORK — Remember Donald Trump’s response in the 2016 presidential debate, when Hillary Clinton blasted him for paying virtually no federal taxes? “That makes me smart,” Trump said. By that logic, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Remember Donald Trump's response in the 2016 presidential debate, when Hillary Clinton blasted him for paying virtually no federal taxes? "That makes me smart," Trump said. By that ...