National Taxpayers Union President Pete Sepp talks with Bloomberg Tax, saying Congress is right to seek answers about how the new IRS CEO job interacts with the existing commissioner position.

A key Senate panel approved President Donald Trump’s nominees to be the IRS’s top attorney and the Treasury Department’s top liaison to Capitol Hill, putting both officials one step closer to taking…

The IRS Wednesday began furloughing workers as part of the federal government shutdown, with most operations closing, the agency’s site said.

The Trump administration plans to name a new nominee to be IRS commissioner even as the Treasury Department Monday named a new CEO to lead the agency, according to the office of a key tax writer.

The White House is considering not paying federal employees for days they have been furloughed during the shutdown, according to a person familiar with the matter, a move that could run afoul of a law that mandates workers get backpay once the government re-opens.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said today that Frank Bisignano, commissioner of the Social Security Administration, will be the CEO of the IRS.

Lawmakers and the IRS have long grappled with how to offer free, online tax filing—and what the role of tax preparation software companies should be.

The founder of $5 billion cryptocurrency hedge fund Pantera Capital is in the crosshairs of US Senate investigators, who allege he may have evaded more than $100 million in capital gains taxes after seeking tax refuge in Puerto Rico.

Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto has shown this year that she’s willing break with most of her party on high-profile votes.

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How to craft a new exemption for small crypto transactions will likely complicate the task of crafting bipartisan legislation codifying the tax treatment of digital assets, senators in both parties sa...

Lawmakers failed to reach a deal before midnight to keep the government funded, but the IRS game plan provides for five days of “normal” operations, with all current staff on board.

The K Street lobbying corridor will stay open for business in a government shutdown with campaigns for clients, from Wall Street banks to airlines and federal contractors, taking new urgency.

President Donald Trump threatened to fire scores of federal workers as the US hurtles toward a shutdown with Democrats and Republicans at an impasse to fund the federal government.

Tax writers and their industry allies are hoping to capitalize on recent moves toward regulating cryptocurrencies to draft a new taxation regime for digital assets.

The IRS will keep up normal operations for a week if policy makers can’t reach a deal by Wednesday on funding the government, according to an agency contingency plan released Monday.

Months of feuding between the White House and Congress over federal employee layoffs and withholding agency funds have turned this week’s shutdown standoff into a constitutional fight over the power of the purse.

The top four congressional leaders will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, a day before federal funding would expire if the two parties can’t agree on a short-term spending bill.

Capitol Hill staffers are anxiously girding for a possible government shutdown this week that threatens to reduce their offices’ manpower, multiply their workloads and halt their pay.

Democrats are demanding the extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits as part of a deal to avert a government shutdown starting Wednesday. Without such an extension, enrollees would face a more than 75% increase in out-of-pocket premium, according to a KFF-Peterson Center on Healthcare analysis.

Senate Republicans are gearing up to hold another vote on a stopgap measure just hours before the deadline to fund the government.

A smooth rollout of President Donald Trump’s multitrillion-dollar tax-and-spending law hangs on the IRS’s legal department, which lost hundreds of workers prodded by administration resignation offers.