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Tax deadline fast approaching: Is the IRS ready?

by Marielle Segarra
Mar 25, 2022
It's still working through backlogs from previous couple of years.
Some people still haven’t gotten their 2020 tax refunds.
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IRS updates tax brackets in response to inflation

by Amanda Peacher
Nov 11, 2021
The IRS adjusted more than 60 tax provisions, including rate schedules, to take rising prices into account.
Following the news of decades-high inflation in the U.S. economy, the IRS released new rates for the standard deduction and tax brackets.
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Study looks at where the IRS audits more and less

by Kai Ryssdal
Apr 15, 2019
“It is, in a way, a map of poverty in this country,” ProPublica reporter Paul Kiel says.
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The IRS is using Instagram to try to humanize the agency

by Barbara Platts
Apr 1, 2019
The Internal Revenue Service is getting creative.
One of the 12 monsters the IRS posted as part of the #IRSdirtydozen campaign, aimed at teaching taxpayers the most common tax scams they may encounter. 
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IRS releases final rules on deductions for "pass-through" businesses

by Marielle Segarra
Jan 18, 2019
You won't find a lot of simple yes-and-no answers in the 247-page document.
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Government shutdown 2019

The business that's not happening, thanks to the shutdown

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer , Renata Sago , Marielle Segarra , Andy Uhler and Tracey Samuelson
Jan 9, 2019
From mergers and food regulation to taxes and immigration, daily commerce is in limbo.
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The IRS brings in private debt collectors

by Justin Ho
Apr 18, 2017
It’s our duty to inform you that today is tax day. If you have some outstanding debt owed to the Internal Reserve Service, you might have a new kind of debt collector coming after you this year. The IRS is bringing on four private debt-collection agencies to go after certain older tax debts: CBE, ConServe, […]
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