That's not a typo in the headline.  While most of us are working on (or thinking of working on) our 2009 taxes, some folks might want to make sure they filed their 2006 returns. It turns out that nearly 1.4 million individuals didn't get around to sending 2006 tax paper ... Read the f ... Read more

Do you cheat on your taxes? You can admit it. I won't tell. Promise. If it makes you feel any better, the IRS Oversight Board's 2009 taxpayer attitude survey found that more folks believe that it's OK to cheat at least a little bit on their taxes. The good news is that the number of cheaters is ... Read more

Two words of advice, tax cheats: Shut Up! Sure, you might be proud that you've filed bogus tax returns and haven't been caught yet, but here's a fact: the IRS can read the Internet. The two women accused of stealing from Des Moines insurer Aviva are just figuring this out ... Read the full pos ... Read more

You've been working for a month now. You've gotten a paycheck or two (or more). Now it's time to evaluate how much of your money is going to the IRS each payday. If you are an employee, most of your tax payments are made throughout the year via payroll withholding. A lot of people overpay, which ... Read more

Ed Brown, the tax protester who held federal marshals at bay for months while holed up in his New Hampshire house, yesterday received a 37-year prison sentence on weapons charges arising from the holdout. This will be served after he finishes his 63-month tax sentence. Mr. Brown can now expect to c ... Read more

The GAO says the IRS doesn't do a very good job of issuing collection notices and following up on them: We found that collection officials lacked information to know what the notice-phase business rules are and how the rules operate. In some cases, the officials either did not know or misunderstoo ... Read more

Private tax debt collectors are back in the news. But this time it's because of local government, not IRS, involvement. " Homeowners on Shaky Footing Could Lose it All Over Taxes ," announces the New York Times today on the front page of its national edition. Cash ... Read the f ... Read more

The IRS has taken a Congressional request (yeah, let's call it a request) to heart and is suspending tax shelter penalty collection efforts on certain small businesses. Last month, a bipartisan group of Congressmen wrote to IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman and asked him to temporarily stop ... ... Read more

Since we're in the midst of national Small Business Week (it runs through May 23), the IRS is taking the opportunity to point out some of the business tax breaks in the new stimulus law. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, enacted Feb. 17, created, extended or expanded vari ... ... Read more