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  • IRS second furlough day is Friday, June 14, closing tax agency offices nationwide and leaving e-filing offline

    June 13, 2013
    If you're planning on efiling a tax document, you might want to get to it today. The Internal Revenue Service…
  • Where to mail your estimated tax 1040-ES form

    June 12, 2013
    UPDATED June 13, 2017: The table showing where to snail mail your estimated tax payment voucher has been updated. Some…
  • IRS chief Daniel Werfel gets new title

    June 12, 2013
    If you're planning on dropping Daniel Werfel a note about the Internal Revenue Services' recent troubles, be sure to address…
  • IRS issues final tanning tax regulations

    June 11, 2013
    Just in time for beach season, the Internal Revenue Service issued final regulations for tanning booth operators. You remember the…
  • Supreme Court gay marriage ruling will affect 179 federal tax provisions and thousands of same-sex couples

    June 10, 2013
    Sometime this month, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide two gay marriage cases, California's Proposition 8 legalizing same-sex marriages in…
  • Donald Duck’s debut and pro-taxes effort during WWII

    June 9, 2013
    Happy 79th Birthday, Donald Duck! On June 9, 1934, Walt Disney released The Wise Little Hen, in which we were…
  • Motor City musician pays Masonic Temple’s delinquent taxes

    June 8, 2013
    I love old buildings. It's about history as much as architecture. But too often, people and cities don't appreciate either.…
  • 25 conservative groups sue IRS for Tea Party targeting

    June 7, 2013
    Six conservative groups told their Internal Revenue Service tax-exempt troubles to members of Congress earlier this week. Now 25 of…
  • Italian businessmen drop trou to protest tax collector

    June 7, 2013
    Tax collectors worldwide are an unpopular group, but a group of Italian businessmen found a unique way to express dissatisfaction…
  • California’s landmark tax-cutting Proposition 13 turns 35 today. Has it helped or hurt the Golden State?

    June 6, 2013
    The tax cut revolution got its start 35 years ago today when California voters approved Proposition 13. The brainchild of…
  • 2 IRS employees placed on leave for roles in costly conference

    June 5, 2013
    In addition to costing $4.1 million, the 2010 Internal Revenue Service conference in Anaheim, Calif., could cost two tax agency…
  • Can the IRS be saved?

    June 5, 2013
    The Internal Revenue Service's recent rash of troubles has me asking, with apologies to Ladies Home Journal, can this agency…
  • Taxpayers picked up $49 million IRS conference tab over three years, including one that cost $4.1 million alone

    June 4, 2013
    It's official. An Internal Revenue Service division spent $4.1 million on one conference. Oh my goodness, IRS. Really? You know…
  • Conservative groups tell Ways and Means of IRS targeting; Senate Finance ranking GOP member wants to hear, too

    June 4, 2013
    Six members of conservative groups that had their tax-exempt status applications held for closer scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service…
  • IRS Acting Commissioner Daniel Werfel survives his first Capitol Hill hearing on troubled agency problems

    June 3, 2013
    Daniel Werfel, who took over as Acting Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service less than two weeks ago, this afternoon…
  • IRS issues preemptive apology for tax conference excesses

    June 2, 2013
    We got a preview late Friday afternoon of next week's Congressional hearings into actions by the Internal Revenue Service. That's…
  • Richer taxpayers get the bulk of tax break benefits

    June 1, 2013
    The richest 20 percent of Americans enjoy more than half of the benefits from 10 major tax breaks. That's the…
  • Acting IRS chief, targeted Tea Party groups will tell their stories at separate House committee hearings

    May 31, 2013
    The IRS tax-exempt status saga continues next week with a new round of Congressional hearings. In separate appearances before different…
  • Shell floating oil platform grounded in attempt to escape taxes

    May 30, 2013
    The prospect of paying millions in state taxes was a key of the reason that a giant floating oil platform…
  • More tax professionals (including bloggers) formally support legal challenge of IRS’ effort to regulate tax preparers

    May 29, 2013
    This just in from the IRS' Worst Day-Week-Month-Year Ever Department: A group of tax professionals has officially lent its support…
  • Special tax treatment available for major disaster victims

    May 29, 2013
    UPDATE, Dec. 22, 2017: Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that became law in late 2017, you can no…
  • IRS employee charged with going on a years-long buying spree with Uncle Sam’s credit card

    May 29, 2013
    Could the Internal Revenue Service's public image right now get any worse? Yes. An IRS secretary in the agency's Lanham,…
  • Proposed airline tax hikes could mean costlier vacations

    May 28, 2013
    Did you take a quick trip over the Memorial Day long weekend? If so, you probably drove. But when it…
  • Memorial Day 2013: Remembering those who gave all, offering some tax help for those still giving

    May 27, 2013
    Folks spend the long Memorial Day weekend different ways. Many travel, visiting family or friends or just seeing new sites.…
  • Watching races, thinking about deducting business miles

    May 26, 2013
    Although I am glued to my couch today, autos are still a major component of this Sunday. The Sunday of…
  • Apple lauded on Capitol Hill at hearing about its low U.S. taxes

    May 25, 2013
    The Internal Revenue Service and its leaders, past, current and now on administrative leave, got most of the public attention…
  • IRS places Lois Lerner on administrative leave in latest fallout from Tea Party tax exemption review snafu

    May 23, 2013
    There apparently was no constitutional recourse that Lois Lerner could use to stave off actions of her own employer. Lerner…
  • New IRS Acting Commissioner addresses his troops

    May 23, 2013
    While the man who previously was in charge of the Internal Revenue Service was being lambasted by the House Oversight…
  • IRS offices will be closed Friday, May 24. Plan accordingly

    May 23, 2013
    The Internal Revenue Service was able to push off sequestration effects until the main tax-filing season ended, but time has…
  • Tax considerations of combining business, personal travel

    May 22, 2013
    It's been one of those days -- don't ask, or I'll never stop! -- so I'm really looking forward to…
  • Lois Lerner, IRS tax-exempt office chief, takes the Fifth before House committee: ‘I have not done anything wrong’

    May 22, 2013
    The Internal Revenue Service executive whose apology blew the investigation into the agency's improper use of screening criteria for tax-exempt…
  • House and Senate committee hearings on IRS screening
    of Tea Party tax-exempt applications set for May 21 & 22

    May 20, 2013
    Clear your calendars tax wonks and scandal mongers. Two more Congressional hearings are scheduled this week to make political points…
  • Enjoy the song stylings of Steve Miller, the singer, not tax guy

    May 19, 2013
    Admit it. For the last week or so, the song "Take the Money and Run" has been playing continuously in…
  • There’s a new Powerball multimillionaire. Winner, IRS rejoice

    May 19, 2013
    One Powerball ticket for last night's $590.5 million lottery jackpot was sold at a grocery story in Zephyrhills, Fla. The…
  • Another big betting day as Powerball and Preakness converge … and don’t forget, winners, about the taxes!

    May 18, 2013
    Here we are again. Eight weeks after gamblers were having a field day putting money on a big Powerball jackpot…
  • Who had the worst week in D.C.?

    May 18, 2013
    Last week was wild in D.C. Three separate hot button issues erupted into what are being termed by many as…
  • New IRS chief is in, another IRS exec is out, Tea Party threatens legal action and Congress has lots of questions

    May 17, 2013
    The Internal Revenue Service has become the ultimate reality show. Although the way the agency dealt with a crush of…
  • IRS issuing some refunds for tax preparer tests

    May 17, 2013
    Good news for some tax preparers. If you paid for testing under the Internal Revenue Service's nascent system of regulating…
  • Capitol Hill softball game falls victim to IRS-Tea Party turmoil

    May 16, 2013
    If you've never worked in Washington, D.C., you have no idea of what's really important in the nation's capital. It's…
  • Obama fires IRS Acting Commissioner

    May 15, 2013
    The first head has rolled in the wake of the Internal Revenue Service's mishandling of applications by conservative groups for…
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