Tag: IRS

This photo taken March 22, 2013, shows the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington. The IRS issued $4 billion in fraudulent tax refunds last year to people using stolen identities, with some of the money going to addresses in Bulgaria, Lithuania and Ireland, according to a Treasury report released Thursday. The IRS sent a total of 655 tax refunds to a single address in Lithuania, and 343 refunds went to a lone address in Shanghai. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Report: IRS refunded $4B to identity thieves

Associated Press, Stephen Ohlemacher · November 7, 2013 9:16 pm

Half of Tax Returns Prepared by IRS Volunteers Completed Incorrectly

Jeryl Bier · November 7, 2013 2:45 pm

WHEC Rochester: IRS warns of new scam

Washington Examiner · November 4, 2013 5:00 am

Former IRS official Lois Lerner. AP Photo

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IRS’ Lois Lerner gave confidential Tea Party tax info to FEC, violating law

Paul Bedard · October 31, 2013 4:00 am

IRS Audit Finds 1 in 4 Error Rate in Scanned Taxpayer Correspondence

Jeryl Bier · October 30, 2013 6:34 pm

A recent report by the IRS inspector general says the agency has given out somewhere between $110 billion and $132 billion in improper Earned Income Tax Credit payments in the last decade. In that time period, between 21and 30 percent of tax credit payments went to people who didn't qualify for them. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Arrival of Obamacare puts focus on IRS tax-credit scandal

Byron York · October 28, 2013 4:00 am

CitizenAudit allows people to view the IRS 990 forms of nonprofit organizations to see who contributes to organizations. (Screenshot: CitizenAudit.org)

CitizenAudit exposes the funding behind Big Green’s Colorado ‘netwar’

Ron Arnold · October 28, 2013 4:00 am

All Freedom of Information Act requests at the Department of Veterans Affairs will now be reviewed by four different FOIA officers, including the VA's director of FOIA service. (Examiner File)

House committee to probe ‘culture of irresponsible spending’ on Veterans Affairs conferences

Mark Flatten · October 25, 2013 4:00 am

Under Obamacare, the Internal Revenue Service will determine who is eligible for health insurance subsidies, and it will deliver those subsidies, in the form of tax credits, to millions of individual Americans.

IRS tax-credit scandal a bad omen for Obamacare

Byron York · October 24, 2013 4:00 am

"Because many contractor employees have access to sensitive IRS systems and facilities, the IRS should address tax noncompliance in a similar manner as it would for its own employees," said Inspector General J. Russell George. (AP File)

IRS contractors owing $5.4 million in unpaid taxes had access to sensitive tax data

Ethan Barton · October 24, 2013 4:00 am

Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, faulted the new health care overhaul, not the shutdown, for sucking up time and resources from the IRS staff. (AP file Image)

GOP lawmaker accuses IRS of putting Obamacare ahead of tax returns

Steve Contorno · October 23, 2013 4:00 am

Shutdown causes IRS to delay tax filing season

Stephen Ohlemacher · October 22, 2013 9:09 pm