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An IRS watchdog says customer service issues are worsening at the tax-return-processing agency. A new report from the National Taxpayer Advocate says taxpayers are experiencing longer wait times on the phone, there’s an even bigger backlog of paper returns than there was a year ago, and delays in processing paper returns have been running six months to one year. The...

The 2022 tax deadline is officially here: Tuesday, April 19 is the final day to file your 2021 taxes in Massachusetts. Tax Day generally falls on April 15 but was delayed to April 18 this year because Emancipation Day, a holiday observed in Washington, D.C., was celebrated on the 15th. In Massachusetts, residents get an additional day to file their…

If you need more time to complete your 2021 returns, here’s what you need to know about requesting a tax extension, deadlines to file and how to check your refund status.

Two House committees have launched an investigation into the government’s use of facial recognition software.

Imagine a world where the government filed your taxes for you for free and all you had to do was sign off on it. This is the way it’s done in some European countries, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, the United Kingdom. It’s called Ready Return. Here in the U.S., we aren’t so lucky. Americans on average spend 13 hours and...

Only 1 out of every 225 tax returns are inspected by an IRS agent, so your odds of getting audited are low, NBCLX Political Editor Noah Pransky says. He explains how the agency has been underfunded over the past several years and why audits are more likely for low-income taxpayers.

In Denmark, the UK, Spain and elsewhere, the government fills out your tax return for you, and you only have to sign off on the information in it. But in the U.S. we often rely on private companies to help us file our taxes; according to IRS data, the average American spends 13 hours and $240 to file their taxes....

Tax Day 2022 may be the last thing you want to think about right now, but here’s one fact to put your mind at ease: You probably won’t get audited. The number of tax returns reviewed by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is far lower today — particularly for wealthy Americans — than it was a decade ago, according to...

Tax season is here and many people could see a delay in seeing their tax refund this year. Luckily, the IRS has an online tool called “Where’s My Refund” that helps taxpayers track the status of their tax return. Betsy Badell and Rob Michaelson explain what it does and what changes you can expect this year. Rob: Betsy, getting...

There could be delays in getting your tax refund this year, but the IRS has a tool to track the status of your return.

The IRS’ customer service phone number is experiencing long wait times as taxpayers await refunds. How to get off hold and get answers to questions.

The White House temporarily took down its Child Tax Credit online tool until the end of this tax season due to confusion the tool has caused.

Duke Moore loves talking taxes on Tiktok (@dukelovestaxes). We brought him in to answer your questions about the approaching tax season — like whether you need to claim your cryptocurrency gains or write off those losses.

Child tax credits, stimulus checks and everything else you need to think about before you send your forms to the IRS.

U.S. taxpayers, brace yourselves because tax filing season starts Monday and you can expect the task to be more cumbersome than usual this year.

This year’s tax filing season will begin on Jan. 24, 17 days earlier than last year

In practice, it’s rare for those who break the law to then turn around and dutifully log their ill-gotten gains for the government to review. But there are exceptions.

The last round of monthly Child Tax Credit payments will arrive in bank accounts on Dec. 15. Here’s what to expect from the IRS in 2022.

Almost all of the money seized by the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation unit over the past fiscal year was in cryptocurrency, the agency announced Thursday.

Don’t focus on the bottom line. That’s President Joe Biden’s message for fellow Democrats about his plan to raise taxes to remake large swaths of the American economy, Biden is trying to persuade Democrats to look past specific numbers and embrace a more emotional argument that the plan is fair.