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The US Department of Justice has filed a petition to enforce summonses against accounting firm Arthur Andersen. The IRS is investigating the firm's marketing of abusive tax shelters to clients. Arthur Andersen is seeking to preserve its clients' confidentiality.

Due to congressional debate about aspects of cash balance and comparability plans, the IRS has stopped issuing determination letters of such plans and is now questioning the legality of plans that have received these letters. The IRS will also review qualified retirement plans.

Issues related to the General Accounting Office's (GAO) investigation into allegations made against the IRS during 1998 Senate Finance Committee hearings are examined, focusing on the GAO conclusions that many allegations were insubstantial. Topics include the background for the hearings, which were meant to highlight taxpayer rights, and specific allegations made during them.

Witnesses at the Virginia Conference on Federal Taxation on Jun 5, 1999, questioned the validity and consequences of accusations waged against the IRS during the April 1998 Senate Finance Committee hearings concentrating on IRS abuse. The IRS Restructuring and Reform Act, passed in the wake of the abuse hearings, may have unduly restricted IRS collecting procedures. Witnesses also discussed the definition of voluntary disclosure and how it may preclude prosecution.

Allegations of IRS abuse during 1997 Senate Finance Committee hearings are being called into question in 1999. One key witness against the IRS was an IRS employee who failed to disclose her poor performance ratings. Independent investigations may refute other testimony offered against the IRS. The IRS's ability to terminate employees has been complicated by the political context of IRS investigations.

A joint operation of the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Internal Revenue Service (1RS) and Tennessee Highway Patrol led to the arrest of 97 people [...]

The congressional committee investigating the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of right-leaning groups has discovered how the National Organization for Marriage's confidential donor list, which was contained in a document it [...]

Byline: Lynn Hume WASHINGTON -- Bond lawyers were wrong to suggest that South Miami's disclosure of a bond-related tax settlement with the Internal Revenue Service triggered Securities and Exchange Commission [...]

House Democrats are still trying to claim that the Internal Revenue Service was politically evenhanded in reviewing groups applying for tax-exempt status. Representatives Elijah Cummings (Md.) and Sander Levin (Mich.) [...]

The 'phony scandal' at the Internal Revenue Service continues to grow. E-mails unearthed by congressional investigators now suggest that, even before the IRS began targeting tea-party groups, at least one [...]

President Obama claimed that 'phony scandals' were distracting Washington, D.C., from doing the people's work, which is to say passing his agenda. His Treasury secretary, Jack Lew, put the IRS [...]

So determined are House Democrats to derail the investigation into the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of tea-party groups that they are now calling for an investigation of the investigator. Maryland [...]

The IRS has thrown up a new distraction in the search for truth about why it targeted tea-party groups for so long. Under the guise of coming clean about the [...]

When news broke that the Internal Revenue Service had, over the course of nearly two years, actively discriminated against conservative groups applying for tax exemption, subjecting them to intrusive questions [...]

As part of the investigation, National Organization for Marriage chairman John Eastman gave some eye-opening testimony. In March 2012, NOM discovered that confidential tax forms listing its top donors had [...]

Interviews by House investigators confirm that the IRS scandal reaches beyond its Cincinnati office back to IRS headquarters in Washington. As reported by Johnson on page 16 of this issue, [...]

Five separate investigations into the IRS's improper targeting of conservative groups soon will be under way: Two House committees (Ways and Means, Oversight), one Senate committee (Finance), and the IRS [...]

The IRS is targeting people who make Obama look bad. Eric Holder, call your [...]

Byline: Shane Goldmacher As Congress sinks its teeth into probes of the Internal Revenue Service, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee isn't the only one doing the digging. The [...]

On March 22, 2012, IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman testified under oath before the House Oversight Committee, which was inquiring about whether the agency was targeting tea-party groups and other conservative [...]

The IRS has behaved badly, but the real villain is Congress WHEN Barack Obama fired the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) earlier this month, he doubtless hoped [...]

Despite the rancour over scandals, big reforms are still possible PRESIDENTS often have no choice but to react to events. When a giant tornado struck a suburb of Oklahoma City [...]

Byline: Lynn Hume WASHINGTON -- The official statement for a bond issue should disclose if there is a material risk that the bonds might be taxable, even if the Internal [...]

Byline: PETER J. HENNING In the criminal investigation into how the Internal Revenue Service processed tax-exempt applications from conservative organizations, the critical issue may hinge on what agency officials told [...]

Byline: Ronald Brownstein Scandals large and small are a remarkably common, if unwelcome, house guest for second-term presidents. But President Obama may not prove to be the only one hurt [...]

Byline: Ashley Post The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has its eye on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that he has launched a criminal [...]

The Internal Revenue Service has admitted filming a pair of staff-made videos that parody 1960s television shows. In its defense, the agency says the video based on Gilligan's Island is [...]

Byline: Brian Straight The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) raided the Knoxville, TN, corporate headquarters of Pilot Flying J on Monday as part of an [...]

Following complaints that the IRS is unfairly singling out for audits conservative groups and politically active churches, a congressional committee has launched a special inquiry into the tax agency's policies [...]