Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rettig told lawmakers the IRS has been working hard this past filing season during a congressional hearing Thursday as he heard first-hand testimony from their constituents about the problems they encountered. “IRS employees want to do more to help taxpayers,” he said in his opening statement. “We want to be […]

The Internal Revenue Service mainly uses lien foreclosures when it’s going after the primary residences of people with overdue tax debts, but taxpayers don’t get the same legal protections as they would enjoy under the seizure process, according to a new report. The report, released last week by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, […]

A Summary of the IRS Fresh Start Initiative Recently, you may have heard a lot about the Fresh Start Initiative in radio ads, tv advertisements, online and more—like it is some recent change the IRS made. In reality, the IRS officially launched the Fresh Start initiative (FSI) in 2011 in order to help taxpayers get […]

Now that tax season is over, audit season has arrived. Based on statistics released in the 2017 IRS Data Book, the audit rate for individual tax returns is the lowest it’s been since 2002. It’s currently 0.6 percent, or about one in every 160 returns. That rate amounted to 934,000 audited returns in 2017. But there […]