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IRS collects record-setting $4.9 trillion in tax revenue in FY 2022

January 04, 2023

The IRS collected a single-year record of $4.9 trillion of total tax revenue from return filings in fiscal year 2022, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) said in a report on IRS compliance activities.

  • federal tax

Paul Iannone and Danny Pannese write Tax Advisor magazine cover story: 10 good reasons why LLCs should not elect to be S corporations

October 06, 2022

Paul N. Iannone, CPA, J.D., MST, and Danny A. Pannese, CPA/ABV/CFF, CVA, CSEP, MST, both associate professors in the Jack Welch College of Business & Technology at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, wrote the Tax Advisor magazine cover story: 10 good reasons why LLCs should not elect to be S corporations.

  • accounting and auditing
  • business and industry
  • member news
  • federal tax

Significant Tax Effective Dates Through 2025

August 22, 2022

In his final column for AccountingWEB, contributor and tax pro Mike Pusey, CPA covers tax provisions with broad applicability, a narrower focus, and termination of the "old" electric vehicle credit.

  • federal tax

Certain tax services do not violate US ban on provision of accounting services in relation to Russia sanctions

June 10, 2022

A U.S. accounting firm is not prohibited by a White House executive order regarding U.S. sanctions against Russia from providing tax advisory and preparation services to the U.S. subsidiary of a Russian company in certain scenarios, according to guidance issued Thursday by Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

  • accounting and auditing
  • practice management
  • advocacy - federal
  • federal tax

IRS commissioner to senators: ‘Our efforts are working'

April 08, 2022

IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig updated members of the Senate Finance Committee Thursday on the Service's performance in the soon-to-be-concluded tax filing season, as well as longer-term assessments of its efforts to modernize its operations, fill staffing gaps, and improve taxpayer service and enforcement.

  • practice management
  • federal tax

IRS continues work to help taxpayers; suspends mailing of additional letters

February 11, 2022

As part of ongoing efforts to provide additional help for people during this period, the IRS announced today the suspension of more than a dozen additional letters, including the mailing of automated collection notices normally issued when a taxpayer owes additional tax, and the IRS has no record of a taxpayer filing a tax return.

  • advocacy - federal
  • federal tax

IRS identifies paused taxpayer notices

February 11, 2022

The IRS announced Wednesday in a news release the letters and notices it will not send taxpayers as it works through its backlog of unprocessed prior-year returns.

  • advocacy - federal
  • federal tax

IRS is 'buried' in paper backlog, creating tax season anxiety so high that even tax pros want relief

February 11, 2022

The Internal Revenue Service has a brutal backlog of unfinished tax returns from last year, which has triggered more tax-time anxiety than one could imagine for many tax filers.

  • advocacy - federal
  • federal tax