The US Military personnel have some very unique duties, expenses and transitions throughout their service. Special tax benefits may apply when moving to a new base, traveling to a duty station, returning from active duty and more. These tips may...
JK Harris has stopped making payments on a $6 million class action suit reached in 2007 with more than 18,000 former clients. The company has paid about $2 million towards that, but still owes about $4 million. Apparently, no payments...
The IRS is facing an under-staffing problem with balancing the workload demands of their Revenue Officers, according to a new audit by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA). The IRS has initiated a hiring plan to add an...
It has come to light through recent audits of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), that the IRS is utilizing an internal coding of an “Illegal Tax Protester” or “Constitutionally Challenged” to...
Future small businesses and self-employed individuals under audit should now be aware of this one, as it will hang all the laundry out there, hopefully the laundry is clean. The IRS is now beginning to request that businesses provide an...
The IRS Treasury Inspector General has come to the conclusion that greater controls are needed over all refundable tax credits, in light of three internal audits that discovered the current IRS system “allowed potentially erroneous refunds of more than $513...
If you file a joint return with your spouse, and all or part of your refund is applied against your spouses’ past-due income tax, child or spousal support, or student loan, you may be entitled to injured spouse relief, and...
WASHINGTON, DC (March 28, 2011) : Taxpayers beset by the proliferation of scam artists purporting to offer help in reconciling taxes owed and issues with the IRS have a new watchdog on their side. Leading providers of tax resolution service...
In an effort to help more struggling taxpayers, the IRS has announced that they will be focusing more on helping individuals and small businesses meet their tax obligations, past and present, by implementing new policies and programs to help taxpayers...
As IRS audits heat up this year, there are a few things you want to make sure you are definitely aware of and prepared for, because results show that IRS audits are wrong between 60% and 90% of the time....
