TIGTA

The report found that required tracking documents, such as Forms 3210, Document Transmittal, are not included with these shipments and/or not prepared properly.

The individual, who was a tax preparer and, at times, an IRS employee, was convicted of several counts of fraud and identity theft.

He claimed $165 million in refunds on behalf of the purported trusts. The IRS paid $5 million of the requested refunds. Mattox used those funds to purchase a new house ...

Federal agents have arrested five people who are facing charges of impersonating IRS agents in scams that have persisted for more than three years. Victims lost more than $2 million and were contacted by phone and told they owed back taxes or other fees.

TIGTA initiated this audit because an IRS employee reported to the TIGTA Office of Investigations that the IRS was not working some taxpayer cases in which refunds were held. The Office of Investigations identified that the IRS did not timely address ...

The IRS received 2,933 Forms 1099-K with gross transactions totaling $543.9 million for which the payee TIN was that of a deceased individual. TIGTA identified that the TIN Matching Program, used by payers to verify a payee TIN, does not alert the ...

In a new report released by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), the IRS has been sharply criticized for failing to update the Windows operating system on its computers in a timely fashion. The foul-up exposed sensitive ...

An Office of Management and Budget mandate required the IRS to eliminate the unnecessary use of SSNs by March 2009. However, the IRS suspended work on the forms, letters, and systems components of its SSN Elimination and Reduction Program in ...