All taxpayers have fundamental rights when working with the IRS. The agency outlines them on IRS.gov and in Publication 1. To help taxpayers understand their rights, here is a list of them with a brief description of each one:
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You don’t want to play chicken with the Internal Revenue Service. Tax season is over, and the vast majority of taxpayers have filed their returns and paid any outstanding taxes they owed. But for a significant number of people, paying
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Here’s a breakdown of how the US Government spends your tax dollars…it may not be the way you think.
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The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program offers free tax help to people who generally make $55,000 or less, persons with disabilities and limited English speaking taxpayers who need assistance in preparing their own tax returns. IRS-certified volunteers provide free basic income tax return preparation with electronic filing to qualified individuals.
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No one wants a visit from the Internal Revenue Service. But if you get too generous with your calculations, you may need to back up your tax return.
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Chances are a big portion of your retirement savings are in pretax accounts like a 401(k) or IRA. If you need to tap those accounts for costly care, you must realize that every dollar is taxable. And you might be shocked at the tax rates that come with withdrawals large enough to foot the bill.
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Required minimum distributions are a bane of retirement for many Americans. The concept puzzles many people, and the rules can be complicated. The result is that many people fail to take their required minimum distributions (RMDs) or they take the wrong amount. The IRS noticed this a few years ago and decided to change the information reported to it and how it is analyzed so it can better identify people who don’t take the correct RMDs.
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What You Need to Do If You Plan to Travel Abroad and Have Unpaid Federal Taxes WRITTEN BY: Rosenberg Martin Greenberg LLP Last week, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) published another friendly reminder that it was recently vested with the
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It’s not your imagination: It really is a different kind of tax season. It’s so different that the National Taxpayers Union Foundation (NTUF), a nonpartisan research and educational organization, is calling on Congress to extend the filing season. by Kelly Phillips
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You can maximize your tax refund in several ways — from paying off high-interest debt to investing in a business or saving for retirement. One or more of these options could be the perfect fit for you.
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Most Americans end up getting a tax refund each year, but if you underpay your taxes, whether intentionally or not, you’ll wind up in the opposite scenario — owing the IRS money. This is especially likely to happen if you earned a lot of secondary income from a side job or investments.
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WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service announced today that it is waiving the estimated tax penalty for many taxpayers whose 2018 federal income tax withholding and estimated tax payments fell short of their total tax liability for the year.
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The American Institute of CPAs and the National Conference of CPA Practitioners are separately asking the Internal Revenue Service to refrain from imposing underpayment and under withholding penalties on taxpayers in response to some extensive changes in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
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Traditionally, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has not issued refunds to taxpayers while the government is shut down. That appeared to be the case this time when the Department of Treasury posted its Lapsed Appropriations Contingency Plan for the IRS
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Kelly Phillips Erb Senior ContributorTaxes Remember those postcard-sized tax returns? They’re here. Sort of. They’re not exactly postcard-sized, but the new form 1040 is smaller than before. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has made the new form 1040 and the accompanying
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