Werfel was the 50th commissioner in the IRS’s history. Werfel has a long background in federal government, beginning his career during the Clinton administration and continuing through the Bush ...

The IRS was already dealing with a crisis as the under-staffed agency faced further cuts by Donald Trump, but the situation was made worse when a decision to use confidential taxpayer data to hunt ...

Tax season usually marks the busiest time of the year for IRS professionals, but for the 30,000 staff who ... an unnecessary middleman that took money out of Americans' pockets for no good reason.

As they have for years, they paid taxes that year with no path to citizenship ... when the Trump administration told a court that the IRS had struck a deal with Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

How short was Gary Shapley's tenure as IRS commissioner? He's out after less than a week on the job. By Steve Benen In recent weeks, the Internal Revenue Service has lost its chief of staff ...

“The clear message is that many taxpayers across the nation want the IRS to provide more than one no-cost option for filing electronically,” former IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said in a statemen ...

the IRS can go after their estate to get paid. But when there’s no estate to go after, the IRS needs to cut its losses. That doesn’t mean it won’t keep trying, though. In this Reddit post ...

When a person dies owing taxes, the IRS is entitled to its money out of the estate. If there’s no estate and the IRS keeps knocking, it may be time to get help. Are you ahead, or behind on ...

Thanks to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative, the future of the IRS is in doubt in ways Americans have never seen before. By Steve Benen After the Trump administration demanded and ...

But there’s no indication that the Missouri Republican’s nomination is in peril, and the Treasury Department says it remains a key goal for the administration. “The confirmation of IRS ...

“If the IRS can go after you because of what you think or what you believe or what you do, we’d no longer live in a free country.” But I’m also struck by the fact that when Richard Nixon ...