Preparing and filing tax returns can cause anxiety and confusion, but resources are available to help you timely and accurately meet your filing requirements. Free filing and assistance are available through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) and Tax Counseling … Read More
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How to Get Assistance During the Filing Season
Preparing and filing tax returns can cause anxiety and confusion, but resources are available to help you timely and accurately meet your filing requirements. Free filing and assistance are available through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) and Tax Counseling … Read More
What to Know if You’ve Been Affected by a Federally Declared Disaster
Each year, disasters affect hundreds of thousands of people and businesses. These disasters can upend every aspect of an affected individual’s life, including damage to, or destruction of, their home, business, and critical documents. To assist taxpayers, the president may … Read More
Is This the Year You Finally Get a Form 1099-K?
This filing season, many taxpayers will — for the first time ever — receive a Form 1099-K, Payment Card and Third Party Network Transactions. The IRS now requires certain payment apps and online marketplaces to send you this form if … Read More
National Taxpayer Advocate Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Earned Income Tax Credit
Celebrating 50 Years of the Earned Income Tax Credit Tax year (TY) 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). The Tax Reduction Act of 1975 introduced the EITC as a modest tax break to provide … Read More
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Crapo and Ranking Member Wyden Release Discussion Draft of “Taxpayer Assistance and Service Act”
Earlier today, Senator Mike Crapo, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Senator Ron Wyden, the committee’s ranking member, jointly released a discussion draft of a broad and sweeping bill titled the Taxpayer Assistance and Service, or “TAS,” Act. The … Read More
Identity Theft Awareness and Update on IRS Processing of Identity Theft Victim Assistance Cases
Identity theft is a constant threat that can happen to anyone. As the saying goes: an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. With the annual filing season beginning this week, it is a good time to highlight … Read More
Happy Holidays from the Taxpayer Advocate Service!
Season’s greetings from everyone at the Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS)! ’Twas the night before tax season, and all through the land, tax professionals were working, each with pen in hand. The forms were all sorted with numbers just right, who … Read More
25 Years of Making a Difference: Celebrate and Join the LITC Movement!
NTA Blog: 25 Years of Making a Difference: Celebrate and Join the LITC Movement! This year, we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) grant program. Since 1999, LITCs have been changing lives, leveling the … Read More
Doing the Best You Can for Your Community This Giving Tuesday
Like many of you, I am looking forward to spending time this holiday season surrounded by family and loved ones. Our to-do lists are long and there is important work to get done, but I hope that all of you … Read More