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Read the latest blogs from the National Taxpayer Advocate

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11/1/2017

Appeals Should Accept Good-Faith Requests to Review Section 6702 Penalty Abateme...

Appeals Is Needlessly Turning Away Even Good-Faith Taxpayers Who Seek Administrative Review of Rejec...

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10/25/2017

IRS Should Identify Potentially Frivolous Positions in the Letters It Mails to T...

In the early 1980s, Congress became concerned with the rapid growth of deliberate defiance of the ta...

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10/11/2017

Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)- TAS Study Finds Informing Taxpayers Can Help Av...

Taxpayers can claim the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in more than one tax year, so using the audi...

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10/8/2017

IRS Policy Needs to Reflect the Reality of Retirement for Today’s Taxpayers

Unlike private creditors, the IRS has wide discretion to exercise its administrative levy powers.

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10/4/2017

IRS policy weakens requirements for penalties

In the past, I’ve written extensively about penalties – touching on topics of fairness, equity, ...

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9/27/2017

Tax Reform

The next few weeks and months are shaping up to be an exciting time for advocates of tax reform. To ...

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9/21/2017

Installment Agreements (IAs): Adopting National Taxpayer Advocate Recommendation...

Previously, I discussed my concerns about installment agreements (IAs) and the study TAS Research co...

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9/13/2017

Installment Agreements (IAs): TAS Study Finds Taxpayers Enter IAs They Cannot Af...

In this and next week’s blog, I will discuss my recent Most Serious Problem on Installment Agreem...

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9/7/2017

The IRS’s Position in Mescalero Apache Tribe v. Commissioner Raises Concerns A...

About this time every year, my wonderful staff of attorney-advisors presents me with early drafts of...

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9/1/2017

Federal Payment Levy Program: The New IRS Automated Levies on Military Retiremen...

In this blog post, I discuss my concerns about the IRS’s decision to extend the FPLP to military p...

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