A former congressman who sponsored legislation to abolish the IRS and is now the nominee to lead that agency faced pointed ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new IRS inspector general report says the agency continued to give 19 contractors access to sensitive systems despite failing background reports as recently as last July.