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Electronic filing of federal income tax forms is free for all taxpayers this year, regardless of income, the Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday. People who can do their own returns and don’t need special computer software can file free online beginning Friday at the Web site www.IRS.gov . Doing so will save the price of a stamp and the time it takes to process ...
The Internal Revenue Service has reduced the standard mileage rate for business use of personal vehicles.
An inmate at the Oxford federal prison had 14 months added to his current incarceration because he filed 26 tax returns with the IRS, claiming refunds of more than $54,000.
ATLANTA — Tax year 2009 is quickly nearing an end. The Internal Revenue Service reminds Georgia taxpayers to avoid putting off important financial tasks until the last minute. The important deadline of Dec. 31 is fast approaching for many tax-planning issues.
Today, those high-profile raids of Midwestern meatpacking plants, and Bay Area ethnic restaurants have been replaced with a quieter but more expansive arm of immigration enforcement: The forensic auditor.
Immigration agents made headlines during the Bush administration when they rushed into Midwestern meatpacking plants, a New England leather goods factory and Bay Area ethnic restaurants, handcuffing dozens of employees who would later be deported.
December 03, 2009 | 02:27 PM Many Gwinnett and Fulton residents affected by the storms and flooding of Sept. 18 were given additional time to file their 2008 federal tax returns and that deadline is fast approaching.
Lower transportation costs prompted a 9 percent cut — to 50 cents a mile — for the 2010 mileage deduction rate authorized by the Internal Revenue Service. The national average price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline was $2.63, or about 83 cents a gallon higher than last year.
In the next year, the IRS plans to look closely at small-business owners, the self-employed and those with overseas accounts. Here's how to be ready if an auditor comes knocking.
An Edmond man was sentenced Wednesday to serve 30 months in prison for money laundering, stemming from a mortgage fraud scheme.
The Internal Revenue Service said Thursday it would consider granting a tax deduction for homeowners who can prove they have suffered "sudden, unusual and unexpected" damage.
Business-mileage Deduction Rate Drops Steeply
Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums may be able to solve his federal income tax problems when he sells his deceased mother’s home in the city’s upscale Crocker Highlands neighborhood. Dellums and his sister, Theresa Simmons, put the four-bedroom house on the market just after the Express broke the story about the mayor’s IRS debt. The IRS says Dellums and his wife Cynthia Dellums owe at least $239,000 in ...
Citing lower driving costs, the IRS cuts the standard rate taxpayers may use for deducting mileage driven for business purposes, from 55 cents a mile this year to 50 cents starting in January.
The Internal Revenue Service is looking for 11 Acadia Parish taxpayers who are due to receive a combined total of $14,792 in refund checks that were returned to the IRS by the U.S. Postal Service due to mailing address errors. The names of the Acadia Parish taxpayers are contained in the accompanying table. The average refund for the Acadia Parish taxpayers is $1,345. read more
There are several changes affecting Roth Individual RetirementAccounts, or IRAs, beginning in January. Roth IRAs are differentfrom traditional IRAs because of the income tax treatment of moneygoing into the account and withdrawals in the future.
