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  • No Grand Bargain on Budget Raises Doubts for Code Rewrite

    Lawmakers seeking to rewrite the U.S. tax code have a narrower path to an agreement because of the partisan divide over how much money the federal government should collect.

  • Taxpayer Advocate Olson Leads Frustrated Filers Through IRS Maze

    Micah Andrews opened his first notice from the Internal Revenue Service a week before Christmas in 2010. He was standing in the kitchen of the house in the Atlanta suburbs that he and his wife had bought to make space for their new baby.

  • Tax Preparer Rules Vanish on Filing Eve After Court Loss

    The U.S. Internal Revenue Service suspended its regulation of tax-return preparers after a federal court ruling said the agency lacked authority, removing a tax- compliance tool that was years in the making and raising concerns from the national taxpayer advocate.

  • 4 Million Word Tax Code Tops Problem List, Report Says

    The U.S. tax system’s most serious problem is the 4-million-word code’s excessive complexity that makes it tough for taxpayers to comply with and difficult for the government to administer, National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson wrote in an annual report to Congress.

  • IRS Called Easy on Criminal Tax Evaders in Watchdog’s Critique

    Criminal tax evaders have an easier time coming clean with the Internal Revenue Service than those who didn’t intend to hide money from U.S. authorities, according to Nina Olson, the National Taxpayer Advocate.

  • Fiscal Cliff Puts 2013 Tax Filing At Risk, Advocate Says

    Potential late action this year by Congress on expired tax provisions might mean significant delays and complications for taxpayers filing returns in early 2013, National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson wrote in a report released today.

  • Taxpayer Advocate Calls IRS Budget Cut ‘Most Serious’ Issue

    An increasing workload for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service combined with reduced funding for the agency pose the “most serious problem” facing taxpayers, according to the national taxpayer advocate.

  • IRS Cuts Mean Less Taxpayer Help: Advocate

    A cash-constrained Internal Revenue Service would become more automated and show less sensitivity to individuals, National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson said in her annual mid-year report.

  • Tax Code Dotted With Subsidies, Advocate Report Says

    Congress should rewrite the U.S. tax code to remove special-interest breaks and make them easier to obey, and detail how the government spends taxpayers’ money, the annual report by the IRS’s Taxpayer Advocate says.

  • Tax Cheats Troll Public List for Dead Kids’ Identities

    Benny Watters, 5, died of a brain tumor in September 2010. Ten months later, when his parents sought to file their taxes and claim him as a dependent, they found that an identity thief already had done so, using government data about Benny’s death on a fraudulent return.

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