Critical staffing cuts at the tax agency were postponed until after the filing season.

Republicans want to put a tax fraudster in charge of the IRS — and I wish that was just a figure of speech,” Sen. Chuck Schumer said.

Senate Republicans on Thursday voted to confirm former Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.) as the next leader of the Internal Revenue ...

The administration has ended free income tax filing, but that didn't stop the IRS from open-sourcing its frontend Direct File ...

The Internal Revenue Service has made a crucial move by open-sourcing much of its widely appreciated Direct File tax software ...

In 1998, Congress took steps to protect the IRS from this kind of political pressure, and to preserve its independence. It was, Graetz says, "an overwhelming bipartisan effort to eliminate ...

Not-for-profit organizations that benefit from the tax exemption can lose it if they violate a number of rules, including for political activity. But a rescission would be a rare move by the IRS.

He also offered reassurances to Democratic concerns that Trump might pressure the IRS to do his political bidding, including that he might order audits of perceived enemies. “If confirmed ...

The IRS is now on its fourth acting commissioner ... That suffers when the tax collector is understaffed or under political pressure.

“Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting ‘Sickness ...