The Associating Press WASHINGTON -- The IRS took some of the sting out of an annual tax chore Tuesday and made free tax preparation programs available to virtually every taxpayer through a partnership ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Tax season is upon us. With municipal, state and federal taxes to file, there’s one question on my mind. What’s the cheapest and easiest way to get this done? Luckily, the IRS has a ...

The Internal Revenue Service alerted tax professionals Wednesday about a dangerous new phishing scam in which a cybercriminal is sending emails claiming to come from the IRS in an effort to steal ...

The Internal Revenue Service is planning to mandate a new electronic fingerprinting process for e-file applications for tax practitioners starting Sept. 25. In an email Wednesday to tax professionals, ...

Electronic tax filing refers to various systems that enable individuals and small businesses to file their tax returns and make tax payments through electronic data transfer. In 1996, the Internal ...

The IRS stopped accepting electronically filed tax returns Wednesday because of problems with some of its computer systems. The outage could affect refunds, but the agency said it doesn't anticipate ...

If you’re hoping to get a jump on the tax filing date, you’re in luck. The IRS Free File program, available at IRS.gov, opened on Friday, January 15, 2016. With FreeFile, taxpayers with income below ...

On April 10, 2012 the Internal Revenue Service issued a reminder (IR-2012-45) that taxpayers unable to meet file their 2011 income tax return by the April 17, 2012 deadline, can obtain an automatic ...

Tax season is upon us — whether we want it to be or not. The Internal Revenue Service estimates more than 168 million individual tax returns will be filed this year. Here's six questions you may have ...

The 2022 tax season is nearing its filing deadline — extended this year from April 15 to April 18. As the clock ticks closer, the usual time-constrained anxiety to submit the proper paperwork to the ...