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The Internal Revenue Service posted to its website confidential information for 120,000 taxpayers with retirement accounts invested in assets like master limited partnerships and real-estate investment trusts. Those taxpayers, as well as tax-exempt nonprofits, must file 990-T forms. Only the information for the nonprofits was supposed to be posted. IRS…

The data — which included individual names and business contact information — was public on the IRS.gov website for about a year until an employee noticed the mistake recently.

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service mistakenly published confidential data for 120,000 taxpayers on its website before realizing the error and taking down the data, the Treasury Department said.

WASHINGTON — Look out, warn the Republicans. The Internal Revenue Service is about to unleash an army of agents eager to audit you and cost you a lot of money and aggravation.

About two-thirds of individual capital gains subject to tax are from selling corporate stock; the remainder is from property sales.

Californians who paid their 2019 or 2020 income taxes late could be getting refunds on the amounts they paid in penalties, the Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday.

The Internal Revenue Service says it is conducting a comprehensive review of safety at its facilities

One of the most conspicuous parts of the tax-and-spending package known as the Inflation Reduction Act is vastly expanded funding for the Internal Revenue Service. The promised flood of cash — an additional $80 billion over 10 years, compared with baseline annual spending of around $15 billion — raises some…

Some Republicans have spread false information about how new funds will be used by IRS, stoking outrage and alarming experts

The big climate and health care bill passed by the House Friday includes billions in new funding for the IRS over the next decade. Most of that money is aimed at catching wealthy tax cheats.

Media "fact-checkers" are taking administration promises at face value and using them to bludgeon Republicans.