There is a brewing battle between the Internal Revenue Service and churches that want to both keep their non-profit, tax-exempt status and endorse presidential candidates. The Wall Street Journal’s Suzanne Sataline reports that the Alliance Defense Fund, a nonprofit, is planning to have 40-50 churches coordinate a special ...

The Washington Post’s Lyndsey Layton and Christopher Lee provide a reason to be even more anxious about tax time. Since 2006, the Internal Revenue Service has relied on three private debt collection firms to collect $1 billion in unpaid taxes. But the firms have only ...

The economic stimulus package under discussion in Washington depends on people spending the money the government gives back to them in the form of rebates.  But as David Cay Johnston of the New York Times reports, the IRS's infrastructure may not be ready to get funds to citizens until late ...

National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson has testified in front of Congress on your behalf, and as a result, some of you may be $1000 richer when the IRS makes mistakes.  Nancy Trejos reports in the Washington Post that Olson has called for a $1 million fund that would enable the ...

Jim McElhatton of the Washington Times reports that an internal IRS audit has uncovered a spike in spending at the revenue organization at the end of the government's fiscal year.  Often government agencies try to spend down any surpluses at this time rather than face a smaller budget ...

I know what many of you will be doing this weekend, and it is not watching the Masters Golf Tournament.  Of course, that annual event was last weekend, but regardless of what is in store on the Tube or around town, you will be involved in another annual activity:  ...

What a difference a few days make.  Originally, this article was to be in ironic juxtaposition to yesterday’s piece about the Army Corps of Engineers discarding plans to pursue a competition between its 2,000-employee lock and dam operations with the private sector.

Earlier this month, Daniel Pulliam (govexec.com) ...

You’d think that “free” is good, but this joint IRS-private sector venture has been buffeted by critics ever since its inception in 2003.

Many folks within and outside of the IRS have been questioning many things about this initiative.  Should IRS be partnering with private tax software companies who’d ...

As hard as this may be to believe, the task of updating and bolstering IRS’s tax processing capabilities has been in the works for the past 30+ years.  I know because I was part of one of the first projects in the early 1970’s to move IRS into the ...

Even if you want to talk with them, the IRS doesn’t want to talk with you.  That seems to be the finding of a recent Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) report.

Stephen Barr reports that TIGTA placed 36 random calls to the IRS’s 400 walk-in ...