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Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, is the 10th-richest person in the United States, worth $127 billion. In theory, when he dies, his estate should pay 40 percent of [...]

Those who found themselves under government scrutiny after alienating President Donald J. Trump ranged from the former F.B.I. director to a onetime aide to the first lady. Former President Donald [...]

The beefed-up enforcement is part of the agency's modernization initiative aimed at improving customer service and catching wealthy tax evaders. The Biden administration's yearlong effort to crack down on delinquent [...]

An insider accused the agency of failing to scrutinize a lucrative tax break in Puerto Rico designed to lure wealthy Americans to the island. For the past decade, thousands of [...]

Former President Donald J. Trump used a dubious accounting maneuver to claim improper tax breaks from his troubled Chicago tower, according to an Internal Revenue Service inquiry uncovered by The [...]

There are tax breaks for electric car purchases, SALT workarounds, benefits for retirees and a new system for eligible taxpayers to file their returns. Filing your tax return serves as [...]

Prosecutors accused Charles Littlejohn, 38, of stealing the tax documents of thousands of the country's wealthiest people and said his actions ''appear to be unparalleled in the I.R.S.'s history.'' A [...]

The tax agency is ramping up audits and criminal investigations into unscrupulous promoters of the Employee Retention Credit. The Internal Revenue Service said on Thursday that it was freezing a [...]

The tax agency is opening examinations into large hedge funds, private equity groups, real estate investors and law firms. The Internal Revenue Service has started using artificial intelligence to investigate [...]

David Weiss, the U.S. attorney in Delaware, said he never asked to be named a special counsel, disputing testimony to a House panel. David C. Weiss, the federal prosecutor in [...]

An I.R.S. investigator's testimony describing strains over the inquiry into President Biden's son is at odds with the version laid out by Attorney General Merrick Garland. At a Senate hearing [...]

INTERNATIONAL Business Confidence In China Is Plunging Foreign companies are shifting investments and their Asian headquarters out of China as confidence plunges following the expansion of an anti-spying law and [...]

The Employee Retention Credit has spawned a cottage industry of firms claiming to help businesses get stimulus funds, often in violation of federal rules. In early February, federal prosecutors in [...]

The forms were originally due in the early days of the pandemic. The I.R.S. estimates that 1.5 million people are owed money, but they must file by July 17. Tax [...]

The Biden administration has opted not to tax state payments to residents, a decision that could add to the nation's fiscal woes. WASHINGTON -- More than 20 state governments, flush [...]

Many content creators who earned money for the first time on platforms like TikTok, Instagram and YouTube are figuring out what a 1099 form is and what they can write [...]

A new report documents systemic discrimination in how the I.R.S. selects taxpayers to be audited, with implications for a debate on the agency's funding. WASHINGTON -- Black taxpayers are at [...]

The National Taxpayer Advocate expressed hope that better days were ahead for the tax collection agency. WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service will begin the 2023 tax season bogged down [...]

Some users of digital wallets and e-commerce platforms must start reporting small transactions, sowing fears among small-business owners. WASHINGTON -- This year, Dennis Turbeville, a woodworker in Washington, used the [...]

The revelation that the agency had not audited Donald J. Trump during his first two years in office despite a mandatory presidential audit program raised concerns about potential politicization. WASHINGTON [...]

Mr. Trump refused to disclose his taxes. A committee's vote to release them ended an oversight battle Democratic lawmakers waged since 2019. WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service failed to [...]

Revealing private documents risks a tit for tat with Republicans set to retake control of the House of Representatives. WASHINGTON -- As a presidential candidate in 2016, Donald J. Trump [...]

The I.R.S.'s inspector general said that returns from James Comey and Andrew McCabe were initially part of a randomly generated pool, but that a flaw in the final winnowing required [...]

John F. Kelly, who was White House chief of staff, said that as president, Donald J. Trump wanted investigations into perceived enemies like James Comey, the former F.B.I. director. While [...]

The report by Senate Democrats points to widespread misbehavior by the plans and the marketing firms they hire. Companies selling private Medicare plans to older adults have posed as the [...]

The White House has yet to nominate a full-time commissioner as the agency embarks on an $80 billion overhaul. WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department said on Friday that the deputy [...]

The I.R.S. announced one of its largest increases in decades to caps on retirement contributions, allowing workers with access to the plans to save more. Americans saving for retirement through [...]

The Treasury secretary gave remarks at a Maryland I.R.S. facility as the agency begins an $80 billion overhaul. WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen pledged on Thursday to bolster [...]

The founders of Yoga to the People, a once wildly successful business that closed in 2020, are accused of concealing their income from the Internal Revenue Service for years. Yoga [...]

GOVERNMENT I.R.S. Tries to Reassure Congress on Audits Charles P. Rettig, the Internal Revenue Service commissioner, told Congress on Thursday that the tax collection agency would not increase audits of [...]

The chances are minuscule. But minuscule is not zero. The New York Times has reported that the Internal Revenue Service gave one of its most rigorous types of audits to [...]

The former F.B.I. director and his deputy, both of whom former President Donald J. Trump wanted prosecuted, were selected for a rare audit program that the tax agency says is [...]

New tax data reveal a steep population loss in 2020, toward the start of the pandemic. The exodus was temporary, but how much of its effects could be permanent? When [...]

The agency started the tax season with more than eight million unfinished returns from the previous year. Millions of 2021 taxpayer returns filed with the Internal Revenue Service have yet [...]

Many of the no-cost online services have age or income limits. But some are available to anyone. It's tax-filing season, and whether you go to an accountant or use online [...]

The agency, dealing with controversy over its decision to use facial recognition software, said it would allow taxpayers to authenticate their accounts with a live, virtual interview. WASHINGTON -- The [...]

At least 10 million returns from last year remain unprocessed because of short-staffing at the tax collector, according to the national taxpayer advocate. The Internal Revenue Service will kick off [...]

First, look in your mailbox for two letters the I.R.S. is sending this month. Make sure the numbers the agency is listing for pandemic aid match yours. This year's tax [...]

The White House and the Congressional Budget Office are at odds over how much revenue the Internal Revenue Service could recoup from tax cheats. WASHINGTON -- The nonpartisan Congressional Budget [...]

The head of the Congressional Budget Office said on Monday that beefed-up tax enforcement would raise far less money than the White House projected. WASHINGTON -- President Biden's pledge to [...]

Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the top House Republican, recently took to social media to warn that Democrats have hatched a dastardly plot. ''Democrats,'' he said, ''want to track every [...]

Workers usually have to spend the money in their health spending accounts by the end of the year. But in the pandemic, employers were allowed to offer more wiggle room. [...]

EARNINGS JPMorgan's Profit Surges After Spree of Mergers JPMorgan Chase's profit was better than expected in the third quarter, fueled by a record threemonth run for its deal makers who [...]

The agreement ends a longstanding tax dispute involving a decade's worth of transactions at Renaissance Technologies, one of the world's biggest and best-connected hedge funds. A yearslong dispute between a [...]

A provision in the Senate legislation would give the I.R.S. more power to scrutinize a largely unregulated corner of finance. WASHINGTON -- In a hunt for funds to help pay [...]

A desire to crack down on tax cheats is overshadowed by years of G.O.P. resentment toward the agency. WASHINGTON -- A plan by Democrats to pay for infrastructure investments by [...]

I yield to no one when it comes to cynicism about politicians who see tax cuts for the rich as the answer to every problem. Indeed, the claim that tax [...]

The backlog means that millions of Americans could still be waiting for their refunds. Millions of tax returns are still awaiting processing by the Internal Revenue Service, which has faced [...]

In mid-July, millions of families will get the first of six monthly payments of as much as $300 per child from the U.S. government. In about three weeks, millions of [...]

Natasha Sarin, a protégé of Larry Summers, is taking a leading role developing tax policy at the Treasury Department -- to some progressive Democrats' chagrin. WASHINGTON -- As the Biden [...]