Internal Revenue Service

Revelations of President Donald Trump’s near-zero federal income tax payments have underscored the ability of wealthy individuals with access to high-priced lawyers to outmatch an IRS that has long been understaffed and underfunded

The Internal Revenue Service is canceling over 1.1 million coronavirus stimulus checks it sent to deceased Americans in April.

There’s still time to submit your bank account information to the IRS to get your $1,200 stimulus payment more quickly. But that window is closing, the IRS said on Friday. Americans who qualify for a one-time payment now have until noon on Wednesday, May 13, to get their money faster by submitting their direct deposit information on the Get My Payment site. After...

The Internal Revenue Service began distributing direct payments to millions of Americans last week, as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, but plenty of people are having issues with the “Get My Payment” portal, which offers information about the status of payments. “The first day it was a mess,” taxpayer Chris Carson said. “I logged...

The Internal Revenue Service has begun sending out stimulus checks to help people amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but many people are still wondering where those checks are.

Millions of Americans may have had their coronavirus stimulus payments held up by glitches if they were customers of tax preparation services, according to a new report. Here’s why those payments could have been delayed, and what one major tax preparation service is saying about the issue.

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.