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By Asha Glover

A real estate company failed to show that the Internal Revenue Service improperly blocked its bid to continue leasing office space to the agency after agency employees complained about the building, the Federal Circuit said Tuesday, affirming a Court of Federal Claims ruling.

By Anna Scott Farrell

Federal Circuit judges seemed skeptical Thursday of a realty company's claim that the IRS improperly blocked its bid to continue leasing office space to the agency after IRS employees complained about the building, with one judge challenging whether evidence actually showed the agency acted in bad faith.

By Anna Scott Farrell

An Arizona federal court was right to deny a request by tax services firms to stop the IRS from issuing batch denials of thousands of pandemic-era worker credit claims, the U.S. told the Ninth Circuit, defending the agency's system for handling problems administering the tax credit.

By Asha Glover

A Georgia man was convicted of filing fraudulent tax returns and claiming a $3.4 million tax refund from the Internal Revenue Service, crimes that could bring 170 years in prison, federal prosecutors said.

By Anna Scott Farrell

The owner of a Chicago tax preparation company was sentenced to more than three years in prison for making fraudulent applications for pandemic-era relief loans and ordered to pay $3.6 million in restitution to lenders who made unwarranted payouts, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

By Maria Koklanaris

The postponement of a tax due date does not affect when the clock for refund claims starts running, the California Office of Tax Appeals said in a pending precedential opinion released Monday that involved a pandemic-related extension.