By one estimate, as many as six million retailers in the U.S. could soon owe sales taxes on goods and services sold in other states. Tax software providers are seeing dollar signs. More
In the wake of the scandal over Tea Party targeting, Republicans say the IRS should hit the brakes on implementing Obamacare provisions. But the IRS has a central role in making sure it works.
There are plenty of loopholes in the corporate tax code that savvy companies can take advantage of to lower their tax bills. CNNMoney asked four tax experts for their top picks of the worst ones.
Some 115,000 federal employees are getting four days off, including one unpaid furlough day. Friday is the first of several agency wide furlough days.
The online retail giant has waged a lengthy and tenacious campaign against state sales taxes on Internet purchases. But even when Amazon loses, it wins.
European leaders took the fight to tax cheats Wednesday with a pledge to share bank account data across the EU and accelerate initiatives to tackle abuse by companies.
From a restaurant owner who hid cash receipts in "seasoned octopus" boxes to a self-proclaimed governor of Alabama who buried gold coins in his yard, here are some of the wildest tax fraud investigations the IRS has undertaken in the past year.
The Internal Revenue Service scandal couldn't have come at a worse time for the nation's 2 million federal workers, who are desperate to end furloughs and get their first raise in nearly three years.
The Internal Revenue Service group under fire for giving extra scrutiny to conservative groups was overworked, understaffed and lacked a layer of experienced middle managers to sound alarms, say former colleagues.
The IRS is under fire for targeting conservative groups in a review of tax exempt groups engaged in political activity. Here's how it all started.
The mortgage interest deduction is claimed by less than a third of all tax filers, and its benefits are distributed unevenly across states -- factors that may become part of the tax reform debate.
Much of the debate about the economy in this election is about taxes -- how much we pay, who pays it, if the burden is shared fairly. As the rhetoric heats up, these numbers can help you separate truth from spin.
Many people think they know what the rich pay in taxes and have strong opinions about it. But the reality isn't always as black and white as they think.
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