More Taxpayers Filing from Home
Through May 10, the IRS received more than 43.6 million self-prepared e-file returns, up from 41.7 million a year earlier...…
Performance Ratings First
IRS employees are choosing good performance ratings over identifying potentially fraudulent tax identification number applications...…
IRS ETAAC Delivers Report to Congress
The Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee (ETAAC) presented its 2013 Annual Report to Congress...…
Tax Certification Ruling
The federal appeals court in Washington, DC, has set September 24 to hear oral arguments in the lawsuit to prevent the Internal Revenue Service from testing, certifying, and regulating professional tax preparers...…
Accountants can be beautiful
In one fell swoop, a beautiful bombshell knocked some wind out of two long-held stereotypes. The new Miss USA is an accountant...…
Interest Rates Remain the Same
The Internal Revenue Service has announced that interest rates will remain the same for the calendar quarter beginning July 1, 2013, as in the prior quarter. The rates will be...…
Inflation Adjustments For 2013
IRS Releases Inflation Adjustments For 2013The Internal Revenue Service has announced the annual inflation adjustments for tax year 2013, including the tax rate schedules, and other tax changes from…
Long Odds
Tax Reform is once more on the agenda for Congress. But Robert Samuelson, columnist for the Washington Post, says that any real reform is unlikely...…
$2 Trillion Underground Economy
Estimates are that underground activity last year totaled as much as $2 trillion, according to a study by Edgar Feige, an economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. That's double the amount in 2009, according to a study by...…
Follies
Now that it is all over but the paying and the weeping, it may be appropriate to consider how truly absurd the tax laws in the United States have become...…
