American citizens who are resident overseas, and who would like a chance to make the American Internal Revenue Service better and more accountable to taxpayers, may wish to consider applying for the soon-to-be-vacated only international seat on the IRS's Taxpayer Advocacy Panel, currently held by suburban Paris-based Laura Snyder.

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service issued a warning on Wednesday of a new "Covid-related text scam" that it said has been "created by thieves [to] trick people into disclosing [their] bank account information" by making them believe that it will result in their receiving the US$1,200 Economic Impact Payment (EIP). 

The Internal Revenue Service said on Monday that it has extended the deadline for Americans to register for an Economic Impact Payment (EIP) by five weeks – to Nov. 21 – to help, in particular, "people who don't typically file a tax return", such as those who don't earn enough to be required to. 

As part of what it says is an "effort to reach under-served communities", the Internal Revenue Service is beginning to provide "information and assistance" to taxpayers in languages other than just English, as well as making certain key documents, such as the basic 1040 tax return form, available in Spanish.

The U.S. tax collecting agency has also added six forms to the 10 it has already said it would temporarily allow taxpayers to sign digitally, in a measure it said was aimed at helping to protect the health of taxpayers and tax professionals during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Happy Tax Day! And what better way to celebrate than a few tax quotations.

As we noted yesterday, the collection of 15 tax quotations on the IRS's website (yes really), wonderful though it is – does miss a few classics that rank highly in our own collection...

With Tax Day for Americans around the world looming tomorrow (July 15), we thought it would be a good time to call attention to a rather quirky collection of tax quotations that we stumbled on, buried deep inside the IRS’s website...

The Internal Revenue Service will start examinations of several hundred high-net-worth (HNW) taxpayers beginning July 15, according to media reports and press releases by tax preparation companies with high-net-worth and large and international businesses.

While the IRS had sent Economic Impact Payments to more than half a million Americans resident outside of the U.S. by early May, and is thought to have delivered thousands more over the two months since then, significant problems remain for some expats, according to the American Citizens Abroad's executive director, Marylouise Serrato...

Monte Silver, the American tax attorney resident in Israel who in January 2019 filed a still-ongoing lawsuit that challenges the so-called Transition Tax element of President Trump's 2017 tax reform legislation, has filed another lawsuit, also in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, over another aspect of the same Trump bill.

Anthony Scaramucci, the well-known American businessman and media figure behind a New York-based alternative investment firm called SkyBridge Capital, says the reason Congress has failed to address the major tax problems expat Americans have been struggling with for years is because the issues are simply  “not on anybody’s radar” in Washington.