IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel sums up the threat: "Scammers are coming up with new ways all the time to try to steal information from taxpayers. People should be wary and avoid sharing sensitive personal data over the phone, email or social media to avoid getting caught up in these scams. And people should always remember...Read More

IRS Form 1099-K is an information form typically provided to freelancers or small business owners who receive payments of income from a client via a third-party payment system. Third-party settlement organizations generally include banks or other organizations (e.g., Venmo, PayPal, or Cash App) that process credit card transactions on behalf of a merchant and make...Read More

If you weren’t frustrated and inconvenienced by inefficiency in responses by the IRS, certainly you know one or more taxpayers who have … or heard of the considerable backlog in unprocessed returns and unissued refunds for the past two tax years. According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, “Partly as a result of the COVID-19...Read More

Effective January 1, 2023, taxpayer-drivers who fit the above profile enjoy a 3 cents bump in the mileage rate … up from the 62.5 cents midyear increase in 2022. The standard mileage rate for business use is based on an annual study of the fixed and variable costs of operating an automobile … clearly more...Read More

The Inflation Reduction Act, was signed into law on Aug. 16. It includes numerous tax provisions that relate to both businesses and individuals … including clean-energy-related tax incentives, and expanded funding for IRS enforcement.Read More

Compiled annually for more than 20 years, the Dirty Dozen lists a variety of common scams that taxpayers can encounter anytime. The IRS identifies problematic transactions through taxpayer examinations, promoter investigations, whistleblower claims, data analytics, document matching, and marketing material review.Read More