The Associating Press WASHINGTON -- The IRS took some of the sting out of an annual tax chore Tuesday and made free tax preparation programs available to virtually every taxpayer through a partnership ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Tax season is upon us. With municipal, state and federal taxes to file, there’s one question on my mind. What’s the cheapest and easiest way to get this done? Luckily, the IRS has a ...

The Internal Revenue Service is planning to mandate a new electronic fingerprinting process for e-file applications for tax practitioners starting Sept. 25. In an email Wednesday to tax professionals, ...

Most taxpayers and tax preparers this year will use IRS e-file to file their tax returns or get extensions of time to file. In the process they will not have to send a single scrap of paper to the ...

Electronic tax filing refers to various systems that enable individuals and small businesses to file their tax returns and make tax payments through electronic data transfer. In 1996, the Internal ...

The Internal Revenue Service alerted tax professionals Wednesday about a dangerous new phishing scam in which a cybercriminal is sending emails claiming to come from the IRS in an effort to steal ...

State Representative Kim Rose (D-Milford) is advising constituents to take advantage of free tax preparation services available through the IRS Free File program. Since the beginning of 2003, IRS Free ...

With the 2025 filing season behind us, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration reports the IRS performed well, ...

For preparers, the site lets you register for IRS e-services, submit inquiries on tax issues, or obtain a preparer tax identification number, among a number of other tasks.

The Internal Revenue Service suffered a "hardware failure" on Wednesday afternoon, which left many of its tax processing systems unavailable Wednesday night, the agency announced in a statement. The ...