IRS Info, News & Tips
Looking for tax tips that could end up saving you a bundle? The IRS anounces tax tips and news regularly that if applied to your return can mean big money for you.
Click on one of the interesting links below to learn more about possible tax savings.
2012 IRS Tax Tips
- Failure to File or Pay Penalties: Eight Facts
- Eight Facts to Know if You Receive an IRS Letter or Notice
- Amended Returns: Eight Facts
- Managing Your Tax Records After You Have Filed
- Three Ways to Pay Your Federal Income Tax
- Everything You Need to Know About Making Federal Tax Payments
- How to Get Tax Help from the IRS
- Six Tips for People Who Pay Estimated Taxes
- Tips for Taxpayers Who Can't Pay Their Taxes on Time
- Taxpayers Get More Time to Contribute to IRAs in 2012
- Injured or Innocent Spouse Tax Relief
- Eight Tax-Time Errors To Avoid
- Tax Refunds May Be Applied to Offset Certain Debts
- Deducting Charitable Contributions: Eight Essentials
- Farm Income and Deductions: 10 Key Points
- Employee Business Expenses
- Health Insurance Tax Breaks for the Self-Employed
- Tax Rules May Affect Your Child's Investment Income
- Work at Home? You May Qualify for the Home Office Deduction
- New IRS Fresh Start Initiative Helps Taxpayers Who Owe Taxes
- Six Facts About the Alternative Minimum Tax
- Ten Tips on a Tax Credit for Child and Dependent Care Expenses
- Tax Credits Available for Certain Energy-Efficient Home Improvements
- What Employers Need to Know About Claiming the Small Business Health Care Tax Credit
- Standard Deduction vs. Itemizing: Seven Facts to Help You Choose
- Seven Tips to Help Taxpayers Avoid Phony Refund Schemes Abusing Popular College Tax Credit
- Six Facts for Adoptive Parents
- Four Tax Credits that Can Boost your Refund
- Mortgage Debt Forgiveness: 10 Key Points
- Education Tax Credits Help Pay Higher Education Costs
- Six Tips on a Tax Credit for Retirement Savings
- Ten Things to Know About Capital Gains and Losses
- Early Distribution from Retirement Plans May Have a Tax Impact
- Four Things to Know About Bartering
- IRS Offers Four Tips on Unemployment Benefits
- The Child Tax Credit: 11 Key Points
- Eight Things to Know about Medical and Dental Expenses and Your Taxes
- Eight Facts about New IRS Form 8949 and Schedule D
- Tax Law Changes for 2011 Federal Tax Returns
- Seven Tips to Help You Determine if Your Social Security Benefits are Taxable
- Taxable or Non-Taxable Income?
- Safeguard Your Refund – Choose Direct Deposit
- Five Tips for Recently Married or Divorced Taxpayers with a Name Change
- New Tool Available on IRS Website to Help Taxpayers Who Have to Repay Their First-Time Homebuyer Credit
- Check your Eligibility for EITC
- IRS Multilingual Gateway Offers Online Help in Other Languages
- What to Do If You Are Missing a W-2
- Online Tax Center Offers Tools and Resources for Small Businesses and Self-Employed
- Tax Tips for the Self-employed
- IRS Reminds Parents of Ten Tax Benefits
- Four Tax Tips Regarding Tip Income
- Six Important Facts about Dependents and Exemptions
- Eight Facts to Help Determine Your Correct Filing Status
- Don't be Scammed by Cyber Criminals
- Do I Need to File a Tax Return This Year?
2012 IRS Newswire
- Last-Minute Reminder to Parents and Students; Don't Overlook College Tax Benefits
- Need More Time to File? Use Free File or Form 4868 to Get a Six-Month Extension
- Can't File By April 17? Use Free File to Get a Six-Month Extension; E-Pay and Payment Agreement Options Available to People Who Owe Tax
- IRS Creates Online Search Tool for Easier Check On Information About Exempt Organizations
- IRS Encourages Small Employers to Check Out Small Business Health Care Tax Credit
- IRS Offers New Penalty Relief and Expanded Installment Agreements to Taxpayers under Expanded Fresh Start Initiative
- Tax Scam Warning: Beware of Phony Refund Scheme Abusing Popular College Tax Credit; Senior Citizens, Working Families and Church Members Are Targets
- Payroll Tax Cut Extended to the End of 2012; Revised Payroll Tax Form Now Available to Employers
- Interest Rates Remain the Same for the Second Quarter of 2012
- IRS Has $1 Billion for People Who Have Not Filed a 2008 Income Tax Return
- IRS Extends Deadline for Estates to File Estate Tax Return to Make Portability Election Benefiting Surviving Spouses
- IRS Releases the Dirty Dozen Tax Scams for 2012
- Payroll Tax Cut Temporarily Extended into 2012
- IRS Announces 2012 Standard Mileage Rates, Most Rates Are the Same as in July
- Interest Rates Remain the Same for the First Quarter of 2012
- IRS Announces Pension Plan Limitations for 2012
- In 2012, Many Tax Benefits Increase Due to Inflation Adjustments
2011 IRS Tax Tips
- Six Year-End Tips to Reduce 2011 Taxes
- Home Energy Credits Still Available for 2011
- What Employers Need to Know About Claiming the Small Business Health Care Tax Credit
- Keep Good Records Now to Reduce Tax-Time Stress
- Eight Tips for Taxpayers Who Receive an IRS Notice
- Nine Tips for Charitable Taxpayers
- Seven Tax Tips for Recently Married Taxpayers
- How to Get Your Prior-Year Tax Information from the IRS
- Back-to-School Tips for Students and Parents Paying College Expenses
- Ten Tax Tips for Individuals Who Are Moving This Summer
- Ten Tax Tips for Individuals Selling Their Home
- Ten Tips for Taxpayers Who Owe Money to the IRS
- Does the IRS Have Money Waiting For You?
- Ten Facts from the IRS about Amending Your Tax Return
- Seven Tax Tips for Job Seekers
- Six Things to Know About the Expanded Adoption Tax Credit
- Five "Social" Ways to Get Tax Information You Need
- Five Tax Scams to Avoid this Summer
- 10 Tips to Ease Tax Time for Military
- IRS Withholding Calculator Can Help Figure Your Tax
- How to Prepare Before a Disaster Strikes
- Tax Tips from the IRS for Students Starting a Summer Job
- Summer Day Camp Expenses May Qualify for a Tax Credit
- What Happens after I File?
- Eight Facts on Penalties
- Nine Facts on filing an Amended Return
- Tips for Managing Your Tax Records
- Three Ways to Pay Your Federal Income Tax
- Ten Things You Should Know About Making Federal Tax Payments
- Ten Things to Know About Tax Refunds
- Six Tips for Paying Estimated Taxes
- Read This if you Need More Time to Pay Your Taxes
- Tax-Time Errors Filers Should Avoid
- Taxpayers Have Extra Time to Make a Contribution to Their IRA This Year
- Seven Facts about Injured Spouse Relief
- Eight Tips for Deducting Charitable Contributions
- Tax Refund Withholdings and Offsets
- Ten Things to Know about Farm Income and Deductions
- Employee Business Expenses
- Work From Home? Consider the Home Office Deduction
- What Parents Should Know about Their Child's Investment Income
- Health Insurance Tax Breaks for the Self-Employed
- Get Credit for Making Your Home Energy Efficient or Buying Energy-Efficient Products
- Six Facts about Choosing the Standard or Itemized Deductions
- Six Facts the IRS Wants You to Know about the Alternative Minimum Tax
- Ten Things to Know About the Child and Dependent Care Credit
- Seven Tips About Rental Income and Expenses
- Ten Facts for Mortgage Debt Forgiveness
- Four Credits That Can Pay You at Tax Time
- Did you Take an Early Distribution from Your Retirement Plan?
- Get Credit for Your Retirement Savings Contributions
- Moving Soon? Let the IRS Know!
- Ten Important Facts About Capital Gains and Losses
- Seven Facts about the Expanded Adoption Credit
- Four Facts About Bartering
- Important Tax Law Changes for 2010
- Why Employees and Retirees may see Changes in 2011 Payments and Withholding
- Here is what to do If You Are Missing a W-2
- Eight Essential Facts about Claiming the First-Time Homebuyer Credit
- Are Your Social Security Benefits Taxable?
- Taxable or Non-Taxable Income?
- Tax Benefits for Disabled Taxpayers
- Five Tips if You Changed Your Name Due to Marriage or Divorce
- Use Your Federal Tax Refund to Buy Savings Bonds
- Medical and Dental Expenses
- EITC – Don't Overlook It
- Want Your Tax Refund Fast – Choose Direct Deposit
- Ten Tax Benefits for Parents
- Tax Help for Small Businesses and Self-Employed
- Tax Tips for Self-employed Individuals
- Five Important Facts about the Making Work Pay Credit
- Four Tax Tips about Tip Income
- Two Tax Credits to Help Pay Higher Education Costs
- Eight Facts About Filing Status
- Six Important Facts about Dependents and Exemptions
- Do I have to File a Tax Return?
2011 IRS Newswire
- Plan Now to Get Full Benefit of Saver's Credit; Tax Credit Helps Low- and Moderate-Income Workers Save for Retirement
- IRS Offers Tips for Year-End Giving
- IRS Seeks to Return $153 Million in Undelivered Checks to Taxpayers; Recommends e-file, Direct Deposit to Avoid Future Delivery Problems
- Tax Extension Reminder: Don't Overlook Special Individual and Small Business Tax Benefits; Choose e-file, e-pay
- IRS Offers Filing and Penalty Relief for 2010 Estates; Basis Form Now Due Jan. 17; Extension to March Available for Estate Tax Returns
- IRS Provides Tax Relief to Victims of Hurricane Irene
- Two-Year Limit No Longer Applies to Many Innocent Spouse Requests
- IRS Gives Truckers Three-Month Extension; Highway Use Tax Return Due Nov. 30
- IRS Urges Taxpayers to Avoid Becoming Victims of Tax Scams
- IRS Increases Mileage Rate to 55.5 Cents per Mile
- Prepare for Hurricanes, Disasters by Safeguarding Tax Records
- More Tax Refunds Paid, IRS Reminds Filers About Savings Bond Option
- IRS Has $1.1 Billion for People Who Have Not Filed a 2007 Income Tax Return
- IRS Announces New Effort to Help Struggling Taxpayers Get a Fresh Start; Major Changes Made to Lien Process
