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IR-2025-18, Jan. 27, 2025 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service opened the 2025 tax filing season today and is accepting and processing federal individual tax year 2024 returns.

IR-2023-135, July 26, 2023 ¡ª With the IRS making substantial progress in the ongoing effort related to the Employee Retention Credit claims, Commissioner Danny Werfel said the agency has entered a new phase of increasing scrutiny on dubious submissions while renewing consumer warnings against aggressive marketing.

This webpage informs a taxpayer that is interested in applying for the CAP Program of the revised CAP eligibility and suitability criteria.

July 24, 2024 ¡ª After a 99-day jury trial before Chief United States District Judge Derrick K. Watson, a federal jury found Michael J. Miske, Jr. of Kailua, Oahu, guilty of racketeering conspiracy, murder, and 11 other felony charges on July 18, 2024, and today determined that as a result of his conviction of the racketeering conspiracy, he should forfeit a variety of assets to the federal government.

Aug. 5, 2024 ¡ª Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that on Friday, August 2, 2024, a jury found Arie Rangott guilty of conspiring to defraud the federal Head Start program, to submit a false document to the federal government, and to obstruct a federal administrative proceeding. Rangott was found guilty following a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Jennifer H. Rearden and is scheduled to be sentenced on December 10, 2024.

June 20, 2024 ¡ª Following a 19-day trial, on Tuesday, a jury convicted Fresno residents Marcus Asay, Antonio Gastelum and their company, Agricultural Contracting Services Association dba American Labor Alliance (ALA), of committing a multi-year pension fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.

We charged you a penalty because your partnership or S corporation return was either late or incomplete, or you didn¡¯t file it electronically, as required.

Enrolled Retirement Plan Agent (ERPA) Program Changes

The foreign earned income exclusion is voluntary.

IRS publishes fact patterns describing situations in which waivers will generally be granted, or not granted, under IRS Announcement 2002-3, which provides waiver guidance for partnerships that cannot meet electronic filing requirements due to technology constraints; or where compliance with the requirements would result in undue financial burden.