Taxes December 12, 2025
IRS Says Financial Crimes Surged Nearly 16% in 2025—Up to $10.6B
Of the $10.59 billion, $4.5 billion resulted from tax fraud, marking an increase of 111.8% from FY24, the agency said this week.
November 17, 2015
National Accounting Group Blasts Congress for Cutting IRS Budget
The NSA letter expressed support for a November 9 letter signed by five former IRS commissioners sent to these same Congressional leaders that said, ““We do not understand why anyone with present and projected debts and annual losses as large as ...
October 28, 2015
How to Collect Tax Benefits for Business Bad Debts
From a business perspective, there’s practically nothing worse than providing goods or services to a customer or client and not getting paid. Or maybe you’ve made loans to vendors or suppliers that haven’t been repaid. It can take a long time to get ...
October 27, 2015
CCH CodeConnect Gives Tax Pros Easy Research Access
CCH CodeConnect allows tax professionals in accounting firms and corporations to quickly find answers and practical guidance relating to federal tax law, and offers relevant practice tools, checklists, deadlines, forms, instructions and more.
October 22, 2015
IRS Working with States and Tax Companies to Prevent ID Theft
As part of the Security Summit process, members from the IRS, states and industry are co-chairing and serving on several teams. The teams have focused on a number of areas including improved validation of the authenticity of taxpayers and information ...
October 19, 2015
Report Says IRS Computers Exposed to Hackers
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 ...
October 17, 2015
Tax Tips: 16 Ways to Beat the IRS in 2016 – Year-End Tax Planning Series
The best tax advice you can get is to speak with a CPA or Enrolled Agent. These tax experts can help develop a tax strategy designed around your specific needs and situation, and they are the only professionals who can represent you before the IRS.
October 14, 2015
IRS Over Exposing Social Security Numbers on Documents, Says Report
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 ...
October 9, 2015
IRS Failing to Revoke PTINs of Felons, Other Non-Compliant Tax Return Preparers
The review identified 3,001 preparers with a felony conviction on their application; 87 reported a crime related to Federal tax matters. Processes do not ensure that PTINs assigned to prisoners or individuals barred from preparing tax returns are ...
October 8, 2015
Why Florida Leads Nation in ID Theft Income Tax Refund Fraud: IRS Cracking Down
Florida has been in the news a lot recently, and probably not for reasons that promoters of the Sunshine State would prefer. The spotlight is because hundreds of people have been arrested over the past year for identity theft crimes that involved filing bogus income tax returns for thousands of taxpayers, and then having the…
October 5, 2015
IRS Begins Exchanging Tax Information With Other Nations: Focus On Enforcing FATCA
With a focus on enforcing FATCA, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, the Internal Revenue Service is now exchanging financial account information with the taxing authorities in selected countries.
October 2, 2015
Woman who bragged on Facebook about tax fraud gets 21 year sentence
Rashia Wilson, a self-proclaimed "queen of IRS tax fraud," was sentenced today to 21 years in federal prison.
October 2, 2015
IRS failing in efforts to curb ID theft tax fraud
The IRS is running into problems as it struggles to get control over the wave of identity theft tax refund fraud that has engulfed the Tampa, Florida, area and spread to other parts of the country over the last three years.