The U.S. Senate voted to install John Koskinen as commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, giving the tax agency its first Senate-confirmed leader in more than a year.
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Read More »The U.S. Senate voted to install John Koskinen as commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, giving the tax agency its first Senate-confirmed leader in more than a year.
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Read More »The Internal Revenue Service reached a milestone for IRS e-file in 2013 with more than 122 million returns electronically filed.
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Read More »The Internal Revenue Service used a numerical test for deciding whether nonprofit groups were too political to qualify for a tax exemption, said an agency employee, contradicting a former IRS executive’s statement.
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Read More »A university and the federal government have agreed to resolve a lawsuit over taxing medical residents.
Saint Louis University sued the U.S. government last fall alleging it overpaid $24.6 million in Social Security and Medicare taxes from 1995 through March 2005.
Several other teaching medical programs have made similar claims, including Barnes-Jewish Hospital, which sued seeking a nearly $25 million refund.
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Read More »U.S. residents with more than 1 million Swiss francs, or $985,000, in undeclared foreign bank accounts are being targeted by the Internal Revenue Service’s widening probe of tax evasion. That benchmark was one of those released Tuesday as the Swiss ...
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Read More »The U.S. Internal Revenue Service said it is expanding its search for Americans with undeclared offshore bank accounts, using information from 7,500 people, including customers of UBS AG, who have applied for leniency. IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman told reporters Wednesday ...
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Read More »Was an Internal Revenue Service investigation of a St. Louis accounting firm a misguided attempt to close the company down for good? It looks like it to U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber, who on Tuesday issued an order denying ...
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