Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert W. Wood is a tax lawyer focusing on taxes and litigation. There, too, the IRS has its work cut out for it.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former congressman who sponsored legislation to abolish the IRS and is now the nominee to lead that agency faced pointed questions from senators Tuesday about his past promotion of ...

Regarding your editorial “The Better IRS Reform” (Sept. 12): The “saga of Lois Lerner,” as it has come to be known, was only possible because the current IRS guidelines surrounding ...

President Barack Obama regularly claims that he oversees the most honest and transparent administration in history. But when it comes to congressional investigators looking into the IRS scandal ...

FILE - A sign for the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, on May 4, 2021. The IRS says it expects to collect hundreds of billions of dollars more in overdue and unpaid taxes than ...

A former government contractor allegedly performed hundreds of thousands of incomplete background investigations of federal government employees, including thousands of Internal Revenue Service ...

The Internal Revenue Service intends to make the criminal background checks and tax compliance checks it performs on tax professionals such as enrolled agents, e-file providers and acceptance agents ...

The Internal Revenue Service exposed more than 1 million taxpayers to “increased risk of fraud and identity theft” by giving their private information to contractors without background ...

Mike Crapo of Idaho said he was confident Long “will be fully transparent to Congress and the American people.” Long pointed to his work in Congress as relevant experience to serve as IRS ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new IRS inspector general report said the nation's tax collection agency continued to give 19 contractors access to sensitive systems despite having background reports that ...