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The Internal Revenue Service today announced Tax Professional Awareness Week, taking place the week of October 19th, which will feature webinars and practical tools to help tax professionals prepare for the upcoming filing season, support accurate tax return preparations and protect taxpayer information.

The Internal Revenue Service has already begun issuing refunds to more than 50,000 taxpayers who benefited from the adoption tax credit carryforward and expects the refund process for most eligible taxpayers to be complete by the end of the year.

The AICPA recommended that the IRS modify Form 8050, Direct Deposit of Tax Exempt or Government Entity Tax Refund, to indicate that the form is not included in copies of a return made available for public inspection.

The Senate unanimously approved the Taxpayer Assistance and Service (TAS) Act on Wednesday, advancing a bipartisan package of taxpayer-focused reforms that the AICPA called a “significant achievement” for taxpayers and tax professionals.

An audit by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) concluded that the IRS’s chatbot and live chat applications used by the Automated Collection System (ACS) lacked performance measures, reliable data, and adequate performance.

Treasury and the IRS issued temporary regulations (T.D. 10056) and proposed regulations (CC-00226466-26) Tuesday to automatically enroll eligible children in Trump accounts after developing a structure they said overcame barriers that previously made automatic enrollment impractical.

A first-of-its-kind U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report estimates annual federal tax fraud losses of between $116 billion and $304 billion and says the IRS needs a coordinated strategy for managing fraud risks.

The title of a newly released watchdog report says it all about the IRS process for resolving identity theft cases: It is long, costly, and frustrating.

IRS2Go becomes IRS app, adding secure mobile access to selected Individual Online Account services

The AICPA and former IRS commissioner Danny Werfel will lead an initiative bringing together leaders to advance practical approaches to the responsible use of artificial intelligence in tax administration and tax practice.

For the second consecutive year, a watchdog has labeled the IRS’s cybersecurity program so ineffective that taxpayer data could be at risk if the agency fails to address security weaknesses.

A government watchdog has confirmed what many CPAs and their clients experienced during the 2026 filing season: The IRS’s CP53E notices created confusion among taxpayers as the agency pushed them toward electronic refunds and away from paper ones under an executive order.

In its opening brief in a case that could affect millions of taxpayers and billions of dollars in potential refund claims, the federal government argued that a lower court misread a COVID-era tax relief law, turning a 60-day extension into a postponement period lasting more than three years.

A federal appeals court has affirmed a preliminary injunction blocking an IRS policy that disclosed thousands of taxpayers’ addresses to immigration authorities, agreeing the agency’s automated process likely violated the strict confidentiality protections Congress built into the Tax Code.

Multifactor authentication, IP PINs, and secure online accounts add layers of protection.

IRS enforcement activity declined in fiscal year 2025 after staffing levels fell and supplemental funding was exhausted, even as taxpayers paid a record $5.3 trillion in federal tax revenue, an agency watchdog said in a report.

https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/news/2026/aug/irs-should-automate-name-address-changes-aicpa-says/

The IRS has launched a digitally authenticated Tax Compliance Report that taxpayers can use to verify their tax compliance when applying for a job, a loan, a government benefit, or other services.

The Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service today issued proposed regulations on eligible investments for Trump Accounts, a new type of traditional IRA under the Working Families Tax Cuts.

The Internal Revenue Service and Security Summit partners today reminded tax professionals to protect client data with a Written Information Security Plan.