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The IRS and 20 tax industry organizations will share 20 new data sets with each other during the next tax filing season.
October 20, 2015 -
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration issued a warning against becoming one of thousands of victims fooled by a phone scam that's robbed $23 million from the pockets of taxpayers.
October 15, 2015 -
IRS commissioner John Koskinen wrote to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) that his agency needs to be part of the budget talks for increasing cybersecurity funding.
October 09, 2015 -
Congress and agencies are still looking for answers as they grapple with a 14 percent increase in the governmentwide improper payment rate in 2014.
October 02, 2015 -
As it prepares for the 2016 tax filing season, the IRS is in recovery mode from last year. It managed to get its work done, but budget cuts and the resulting reductions in staff took their toll. On the Federal Drive with Tom Temin, National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson reviews IRS customer service and what it's got to do. She says the final numbers are now in, and the picture didn't improve much.
September 30, 2015 -
If you work or ever worked for the government, if you retired from Uncle Sam, if you applied for but didn't take a federal job, odds are somebody knows a lot of your secrets. Who did it, what exactly did they do, when did it happen, where, and often most elusively, why?
September 25, 2015 Despite a smaller budget and more laws to follow, the IRS survived the 2015 tax season relatively unscathed.
September 22, 2015-
Political pundits are betting Congress will pass a continuing resolution to keep the government funded past the end of this month. Most agencies would prefer that lawmakers pass a real budget. Not the Internal Revenue Service though. Commissioner John Koskinen explains why his agency is better off without a standard budget bill.
September 14, 2015 -
Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen says a CR is a better alternative to the proposed budget cuts to the agency. The IRS could lose as much as $838 million if the House has its way.
September 11, 2015 An audit by the Treasury IG for Tax Administration found the IRS could complete cases for late-paying federal employees and retirees much faster if it makes changes to how it collects the money.
September 09, 2015-
Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) wrote to the Agriculture Department's National Finance Center, the Pentagon's Defense Finance and Accounting Service, the Interior Department's National Business Center and the General Service Administration's National Payroll Branch asking for details on their reporting of wage and tax statements in an effort to ensure tax refunds are going to the right people.
August 27, 2015 -
Jon Adler, president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, says the criminal investigation division of the IRS should become its own agency that reports directly the Treasury Department.
August 21, 2015 -
The association that represents federal law enforcement officers wants its members out from under IRS management. The Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association (FLEOA) says the IRS should no longer have a criminal investigation division. FLEOA says the unit has suffered because of the scandal in the agency's tax-exempt division a few years back. Jon Adler is FLEOA's national president. He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the association's current thinking.
August 20, 2015 -
Agencies lose a new record of $125 billion in improper payments last year. Twenty-two different agencies committed errors, and three programs account for $93 billion in improper payments. One of those programs is the Earned Income Tax Credit, which has a 27 percent error rate. Danny Werfel, director of Boston Consulting Group and former acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, is writing for the Centre for Public Impact. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose why cutting government waste isn't as simple as it might seem.
August 17, 2015 -
When you think of the IRS, words like warm, fuzzy, helpful, friendly, don't immediately come to mind. But Senior Correspondent Mike Causeys says there are reasons to reconsider that assessment.
August 04, 2015