IRS News

IRS hiring thousands to catch up. With the IRS behind on filing of paper tax returns from last year, they are adding nearly 11,000 additional workers to catch up the backlog of tax returns that have not been processed. The best guestimate is t... Read More

IRS has 2018 refund money available still. In IRS Revenue Bulletin IR-2022-66, the IRS announced that is has nearly $1.5 billion in refunds for people who have not filed a 2018 tax return. Those individuals have until this years filing date, Ap... Read More

IRS push to update its computer system. The recent backlog of IRS paper tax returns has resulted in a pubic outcry over the terrible service at the IRS. While it is a bad thing, in the long run, it may be what the agency needed to get the atten... Read More

Blatant tax cheat owes $2.9 billion to IRS. Some tax schemes are harder than others for the IRS to uncover. And then some are actually pretty stupid. This is the latter. This particular fellow and his wife cheated the tax man over and over, for... Read More

IRS mess is slowly getting handled. After a large public outcry over missing tax refunds, and the fact that the National Taxpayer Advocate stated that in 2021 only 12 percent of all phone calls to the IRS actually got thru to someone, along wit... Read More

IRS behind nearly 17 million tax returns. The IRS has seen the problems due to Covid and the government shutdown now have a serious impact on the 2022 filing season, as they still have to grapple with getting back unfiled tax returns form the p... Read More

IRA contributions up until April 18th. With the Covid pandemic causing upheavals in the life of people all over the globe, and here in the U.S., keeping up on things has become more stressful. With two tax code changes under former President Tr... Read More

Tax Resolution critical with IRS backlog. It looks like the IRS will send a second team of clerical workers to work on the backlog of unprocessed tax returns from the last filing season, that some estimates say is nearly 12 million tax returns. ... Read More

IRS scraps plan to close plant. The Internal Revenue Service has scrapped a previous plan that it had to close a Tax Processing facility it had, over the massive backlash it has received for falling so far behind on the processing of back tax r... Read More

IRS taxpayer assistance centers open. Years ago the IRS had a program, that started in just a few cities but was such a success that it went to dozens more, in an effort to give taxpayers with difficult situations a chance to get the IRS proble... Read More