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PODCAST: IRS scam

Mar 21, 2014
Walmart is putting on a "Black-Friday-like" for gardening and outdoor supplies. And we look at how legalization might affect undocumented workers as part of our series, City of Dreams.

Looking for tax breaks in all the wrong places

Mar 6, 2014
Hey homeowners: Here are some tax tips you may not know about.

Dog catcher more popular than IRS commissioner

Dec 13, 2013
John Koskinen is expected to be recommended for confirmation as IRS commissioner.

IRS beats the sequester! Lucky you

Jul 22, 2013
The IRS is canceling its Monday furlough day because it has managed to cut costs enough to avoid it.

IRS not alone in penchant for bashes

Jun 6, 2013
Expensive conferences are falling out of favor with federal agencies.

What does teambuilding get you, anyway?

Jun 5, 2013
The IRS has come under heat for spending on conferences and teambuilding training, but teambuilding is big business.

What can save the IRS brand?

Jun 4, 2013
What does the ongoing IRS scandal mean for the IRS brand and what, if anything, can be done to shore it up?

For public good, not for profit.

Friday furloughs mean less services

May 24, 2013
Thanks to sequestration, roughly 115,000 federal workers at the IRS, EPA, HUD and OMB get an unpaid holiday. Does anybody really notice that the offices are closed on the first day of the long Memorial Day weekend?

The beat of the sequester furloughs marches on

May 24, 2013
As a result of sequester, the IRS, HUD, the EPA and Office of Management and Budget become part of the biggest wave of government office closures since 1995.

Meet Daniel Werfel, the new chief of the IRS

Daniel Werfel starts Wednesday as the new acting administrator of the Internal Revenue Service, succeeding Steven T. Miller, who resigned under pressure last week.