The Internal Revenue Service said Thursday it’s putting an immediate stop to processing of new claims for the Employee Retention Credit after receiving a surge of questionable claims. The immediate moratorium will be in effect until the end of the year.
The IRS is launching plans with boosted technology and artificial intelligence to collect unpaid taxes from higher earners, partnerships and large corporations, which could transform tax compliance or spark challenges for the agency, experts say.
The Internal Revenue Service plans to leverage artificial intelligence to identify patterns of noncompliance in large partnerships, while also ramping up its examinations of high-income taxpayers and big corporations.
Artificial intelligence at the IRS isn’t new, but the recent infusion of funding from the Democrats’ tax-and-climate law gives the agency more fuel to address compliance gaps.
Former IRS Commissioner Mark Everson compares the efforts of the IRS to go paperless to the interstate highway system of the 1960s, when he was a child.
The Internal Revenue Service hopes to process all of the tax correspondence, notice responses and nontax forms it receives digitally in the next two years in an effort
The IRS has unveiled plans to offer digital correspondence for the 2024 tax season, building on the agency’s decade-long overhaul of improved service, technology and compliance.
IRS agents won’t be knocking on Americans’ doors unannounced anymore because of increasing worries over agents’ safety and imposter scams.
The Internal Revenue Service is using the extra funding it received from the Inflation Reduction Act to audit big complex partnerships using data analytics and other technology tools
Last year, Congress approved $80 billion in new funding for the Internal Revenue Service — but the bipartisan debt ceiling deal would claw some of that money back.