The government sent out more than $1 billion in fraudulent refunds last year and offered this explanation Thursday for the bad checks in the mail: The Internal Revenue...

The IRS on Thursday announced its own little economic bailout plan, worth about $266 million, for taxpayers who didn’t get their economic stimulus checks or...

Two new IRS computer systems that will eventually cost taxpayers almost $2 billion are being put into service with known security and privacy vulnerabilities, a...

Overdue economic stimulus checks will soon be mailed to about a quarter of a million married couples who had been denied the money because of an IRS glitch.

The Internal Revenue Service, seeking to make cash more available during the current credit crunch, has issued a rule making it easier for U.S. corporations to bring...

The older brother of a former Philadelphia mayor was sentenced Friday to 2 1/2 years in prison for not filing tax returns and ordered to pay the IRS more than $413,000...

Voters whose bottom line is taxes can use a new online tool to calculate what their own bottom line would be with the IRS under a Barack Obama or John McCain...

Procter & Gamble Co., a huge consumer products maker whose products include Crest toothpaste and Pampers diapers, is suing the U.S. government for nearly $435...

Taxpayers in Texas counties and Louisiana parishes hit by Hurricane Ike will get until Jan. 5, 2009, to take care of tax filings and payments due this fall, the...

Taxpayers and tax preparers in areas affected by Hurricane Ike will get an extra week to file returns and make payments due Sept. 15, the Internal Revenue Service said...

Rep. Charles Rangel, a powerful lawmaker besieged by questions about his personal finances, has admitted he owes $5,000 to the IRS for mistakes on his taxes but says...

These days an internet scam is troubling IRS taxpayers under which fraudulent emails are being sent to taxpayers of IRS which appear to have been sent by them. The...

Individuals and businesses located in areas of Louisiana affected by Hurricane Gustav will get more time to pay their taxes, the Internal Revenue Service said...

It took seven years, but Charles Ulrich did something many people dream about, but few succeed at: He beat the IRS in a tax dispute.

An Internal Revenue Service employee in Kentucky says he’s guilty of improperly accessing the IRS accounts of celebrities and sports figures.

Federal authorities say a central Florida construction company owner tried to hire a hit man to kill an IRS agent to avoid paying $300,000 in taxes.

More than a million and a half businesses owe the government about $58 billion in taxes they were supposed to withhold from employees’ paychecks but never...

Congressional investigators say businesses have failed to pay the IRS some $58 billion over the past decade in taxes they were supposed to have withheld from their...

The IRS Criminal Investigation Division completed more than 4,200 investigations in the 2007 budget year, with about one half resulting in conviction for a crime,...

The government on Friday sent out the last of the economic stimulus checks for people who filed tax returns before April 15.But the Internal Revenue Service stressed...