Millions of households that hustled to get their tax returns to the IRS early could be waiting until March for their refunds. If you’re claiming the additional child tax credit or the earned income tax credit, the IRS cannot issue your refund before mid-February.

A Boston-based Internal Revenue Service agent convicted of raping a college intern at gunpoint in 2017 was sentenced to seven to eight years in prison Tuesday. James Clarke, 45, dropped his head into his hands when the sentence was delivered at Suffolk Superior Court. Clarke was convicted by a Suffolk County jury last month of aggravated rape, assault and battery…

A jury found a Boston-based Internal Revenue Service agent guilty Thursday of raping a college intern at gunpoint in 2017. A Suffolk County jury convicted James Clarke, 45, of aggravated rape, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and indecent assault and battery in the July 2017 assault of a 21-year-old woman, the Boston Globe reported. Clarke invited the victim…

An organization that helps people with disabilities find jobs is feeling the effects of the partial government shutdown.

On Day 27 of the government shutdown, hundreds of federal workers rallied outside the Massachusetts State House.

The public impeachment inquiry hearings that started Wednesday pit a Democratic attorney who built his reputation as a federal mob and securities fraud prosecutor against a GOP House Oversight investigator who helped steer some of the most notable probes of the Obama administration. The two attorneys with shiny resumes are hardly household names. Now, Daniel Goldman and Steve Castor find...

The IRS released the federal tax rates and income brackets for 2020 on Wednesday. The seven tax rates remain unchanged, while the income limits have been adjusted for inflation. Tax rates in the U.S. are marginal, meaning that different levels of the same person’s income are taxed at different rates. If you and your spouse earn $80,000 in 2020 and...

Five New England universities are among those around the world that have accepted at least $60 million over the past five years from the family that owns the maker of OxyContin, even as the company became embroiled in lawsuits related to the opioid epidemic, financial records show.

Federal agents and state police have raided a Massachusetts strip club and a restaurant but are not saying why. A spokeswoman for the FBI said Wednesday that agency as well as IRS and Massachusetts State Police “are conducting court authorized activity in connection with an ongoing federal investigation.”

An accountant has been convicted by a federal grand jury of conspiring with a former state senator to defraud the IRS. Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling says 67-year-old John Nardozzi, of Waltham, was convicted Wednesday of defrauding the IRS of approximately $600,000.

If you asked the IRS for six more months to work on your 2018 tax return, you’re about to run out of time. This spring, about 15 million taxpayers asked the IRS for an extension on their 2018 tax return. While those filers had to pay their projected taxes by April 15, they had to until Oct. 15 to complete and submit their returns.

The State Police Association of Massachusetts will undergo another leadership shakeup after the president of the union resigned Monday. Sgt. Mark Lynch faced a likely recall vote this week after more than 500 troopers signed a petition to oust him as head of the group, union sources with direct knowledge told the NBC10 Boston Investigators. Lynch instead stepped down Monday,...

The State Police Association of Massachusetts will undergo another leadership shakeup after the president of the union resigned Monday. Sgt. Mark Lynch faced a likely recall vote this week after more than 500 troopers signed a petition to oust him as head of the group, union sources with direct knowledge told the NBC10 Boston Investigators. Lynch instead stepped down Monday,...

A former state police union chief and a Beacon Hill lobbyist arrested last month for allegedly misusing union funds for personal gain have been indicted on a slew of charges including racketeering, fraud and tax crimes, federal authorities said Thursday.

Heather Waldron and John Hawley are losing their four-bedroom house in the hills above Blacksburg, Va. A teenage daughter, one of their five children, sold her clothes for spending money. They worried about paying the electric bill. Financial disaster, they say, contributed to their divorce, finalized in April. Their money problems began when the University of Virginia Health System pursued...

Fallout from a federal investigation into the former head of the Massachusetts State Police union is continuing on Beacon Hill. The former president of the State Police Association of Massachusetts, Dana Pullman, was arrested Wednesday on charges he embezzled money from the group. Now, Sen. Michael Moore says he’s not keeping the money he received as political contributions from Pullman....

The former Massachusetts State Police union boss charged by the area’s United States attorney in a kickback and bribery scheme came under investigation a decade earlier for double dipping allegations, according to records obtained by the NBC10 Boston Investigators. Dana Pullman, the former head of the State Police Association of Massachusetts, faced an internal affairs investigation in 2006 after an...

A former state police union chief and a Beacon Hill lobbyist have been arrested for allegedly misusing union funds for personal gain, federal authorities said Wednesday. FBI and IRS agents arrested 57-year-old Dana Pullman, former president of the State Police Association of Massachusetts, and 68-year-old State House lobbyist Anne Lynch early Wednesday at their respective homes in Worcester and Hull.

Democrats still shaken by the 2010 tea party wave that netted Republicans six governors’ offices, flipped 21 statehouse chambers and drove nearly 700 Democratic state legislators from office are mounting a comeback, pouring millions of dollars into state level races. In a longtime Republican district covering a wealthy enclave of Dallas, Democratic challenger Shawn Terry has raised $235,000, an eye-popping...

Presidential contender Elizabeth Warren on Saturday unveiled her plan to combat gun violence, including proposals to triple the tax applied to firearm sales and raise the tax on ammunition even more dramatically. The plan, announced in a post on the blogging platform Medium, comes in the wake of back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, that left...