WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 18: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) The Senate has officially ...

Contractors face a higher risk of IRS scrutiny. Organizing records, analyzing discrepancies, and professional representation are key to a favorable outcome.

When taxpayers submit their returns this year, they will hope they have faithfully fulfilled their civic duties and can rest on their laurels — at least until next spring. But for millions of ...

Receiving an audit letter from the Internal Revenue Service is not the way anyone wants to end the tax season. However, not every audit that arrives in a taxpayer’s mailbox requires a face-to-face ...

Imagine getting a letter in the mail stating you owe someone $98,000. Now imagine that someone is the Internal Revenue Service. Just the mere utterance of the letters “IRS” will give business owners ...

Defending yourself during an Internal Revenue Service audit can be a time-consuming, stressful affair — but audits aren’t too common. In fact, less than 1% of all returns are typically audited by the ...

IN 2025, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) suspended all its audit and field operations to realign its audit strategy and processes. This stemmed from congressional probes concerning the agency’s ...

The Internal Revenue Service doesn't collect data on taxpayers' race or ethnicity, but some of its methods could lead to disparities in its audit rate, according to a new report. The GAO report ...

Tax controversy is a term that describes disputes between taxpayers and taxing authorities, most commonly the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), regarding the amount of tax owed or the application of tax ...

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) recently released two reports for its study of the IRS Small Business/Self-Employed (SB/SE) Division’s audits of partnerships and S ...

For decades, the tax process has centered around compliance. And for good reason — it's an important and highly scrutinized output of the tax function. But if compliance is the endgame, what about all ...