U.S. Internal Revenue Service told a judge its technicians made repeated futile efforts to save data on a malfunctioning computer hard drive used by Lois Lerner, the former official at the center of a dispute between Congress and the Obama administration over scrutiny of tea party groups.

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The House Ways and Means Committee chairman called for a special prosecutor to probe the Internal Revenue Service’s loss of emails from the time the agency gave extra scrutiny to Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status.

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The Internal Revenue Service is making it easier for some U.S. taxpayers to disclose offshore accounts.

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Congressional Republicans are demanding answers from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service after the agency lost more than two years of e-mails requested by lawmakers.

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A U.S. House committee voted to hold former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify about her role in scrutinizing Tea Party groups seeking tax exemptions.

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The IRS official investigated by Congress over the tax agency’s scrutiny of Tea Party groups refused to testify at a U.S. House hearing, prompting a shouting match between the panel’s top Republican and Democrat.

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General Electric Co. sued the U.S. Internal Revenue Service seeking a $658 million federal tax refund for overpaid taxes and interest tied to losses it claimed from the sale of ERC Life Reinsurance.

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The U.S. Internal Revenue Service lacks authority to regulate paid tax preparers, a federal appeals panel said, upholding a lower-court ruling throwing out licensing rules for as many as 700,000 practitioners.

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The IRS is encouraging taxpayers to use the agency’s website — www.irs.gov — to look up basic tax information and check the status of their refunds, rather than calling.

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The percent of individual tax returns audited by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service declined for the second straight year, reaching the lowest rate since 2005.

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The Internal Revenue Service started 1,492 criminal investigations of the use of tax returns to commit identity theft in the year that ended Sept. 30, a 66 percent increase.

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