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.

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

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 ...

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 Senate confirmed Billy Long, a former Republican congressman from Missouri, as the new IRS commissioner amid staffing and ...

“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 ...

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 ...