NTA Blog

7/2/2013

NTA Nina Olson delivers Laurence Neal Woodworth Memorial Lecture

National Taxpayer Advocate (NTA) Nina Olson delivered the Laurence Neal Woodworth Memorial Lecture a...

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5/13/2013

NTA Nina Olson Special Report for Tax Notes: More Than a ‘Mere’ Preparer: Lo...

For the May 13, 2013 edition of Tax Notes, National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson wrote a special rep...

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4/4/2012

Virtual Face-to-Face Audits: A prescription for curing the IRS’s ailing corres...

Over the last few weeks, I’ve written about the problems associated with the Internal Revenue Serv...

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3/13/2012

IRS Correspondence Examinations: Are they really as effective as the IRS thinks?

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2/15/2012

Why we need a Taxpayer Bill of Rights

Last year, in a nationwide survey of U.S. taxpayers who had filed a 2010 tax return, the Taxpayer Ad...

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2/6/2012

Are IRS Correspondence Audits Really Less Burdensome for Taxpayers?

I discussed how the IRS’s growing use of “unreal” audit “touches” both increases its compl...

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1/25/2012

What’s an Audit, Anyway?

The IRS's recently released Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 Enforcement and Service Results, show some intere...