NTA Blog 4/24/2019 The Second Circuit in Borenstein Helped to Close the Gap in the Tax Court’... In 2017, the U.S. Tax Court decided the case of Borenstein v. Commissioner by applying a technical r...
NTA Blog 4/18/2019 The Adoption of a Withholding Code and the Improvement of Free File Fillable For... Such a step would require substantial systemic adjustments and in the recent Annual Report to Cong...
NTA Blog 4/11/2019 Expanding Pay-As-You-Earn Tax Collection Could Bring Significant Benefits Imagine it’s tax filing season. You’re dreading figuring out your tax liability this year.
NTA Blog 4/3/2019 The IRS Should Redesign Its Notices Using Psychological, Cognitive, and Behavior... With the filing season in full operation, many taxpayers are receiving correspondence.
NTA Blog 3/27/2019 IRS Efforts to Improve the EITC Improper Payment Rate Harm Taxpayers While Overl... The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is one of the primary forms of public assistance.
NTA Blog 3/20/2019 Fraud Detection Filters: Recent Changes in the IRS Fraud Detection Program May R... Over the years I have repeatedly raised concerns regarding the IRS’s Identity Theft (IDT).
NTA Blog 3/15/2019 FREE FILE: The Free File Program Is Failing to Achieve Its Objectives and Should... In this week’s blog, I highlight my concerns with the IRS Free File program.
NTA Blog 3/6/2019 The IRS Office of Chief Counsel is Using Email to Avoid Disclosure of Program Ma... This blog highlights problems with the transparency of the IRS Office of Chief Counsel (OCC)
NTA Blog 3/1/2019 A Personal Message from the National Taxpayer Advocate On this date eighteen years ago – March 1st, 2001 – I walked through the doors of the IRS headqu...
NTA Blog 2/28/2019 We’re Baaaaaack! We’re Baaaaaack! Well. It’s been a while since we’ve sent out an NTA Blog — ten weeks, to be...