IRS

To some people, it might soon appear that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service is about to swallow the earth. The plenary powers that the agency brings to bear domestically are, of course, well known to American taxpayers, many of whom have found themselves on the receiving end of agency audits, tax liens and levies, andcontinue reading…

For the vast majority of people here in Minnesota and across the U.S., the thought of sitting down to do prepare a tax return is nothing less than cringeworthy. That’s because it will likely require sorting through significant paperwork and trying to decipher otherwise arcane language courtesy of the Internal Revenue Service. Indeed, it’s preciselycontinue reading…

Imagine for a moment that you have lived virtually your entire life in a country other than the United States. You speak a language other than English and identify far more closely with events that are going on far outside U.S. borders than with anything happening domestically in that country. And then one day youcontinue reading…

Pressure, pressure, pressure. The Internal Revenue Service feels it and, as a result of that, so, too, do high numbers of filers seeking to interact with agency representatives regarding tax-related questions and concerns. The American tax system is, by any standard, complex, and many filers need all the help they can get to understand itscontinue reading…

There’s really just one thought that should immediately come to the forefront of your mind when you pick up the phone and hear a person on the other end identify himself or herself as an Internal Revenue Service agent. Scam. Every year around this time, the “we’re calling from the IRS” ruse gets dusted offcontinue reading…