A U.S. Internal Revenue Service announcement on July 19, by the agency’s “Large Business and International Division” (LB&I), of a new set of compliance initiatives, is attracting growing attention among overseas American tax experts because of its likely impact on expat U.S. citizens.

Israel-based U.S. tax attorney Monte Silver has formally countered the Internal Revenue Service’s motion earlier this month to dismiss his and his company's ongoing lawsuit that challenges a key component of President Trump's December 2017 tax reform legislation.

It is perhaps not surprising to hear that non-U.S. (or "foreign") trusts with U.S. owners can be tricky...

 The U.S. Internal Revenue Service said on Wednesday that it "will not challenge" the claiming of foreign tax credits against certain controversial payments that potentially thousands of American expatriates resident in France have been paying for years, and noted that taxpayers who wish to file a claim for refund of U.S. tax with respect to a foreign tax credit have 10 years after the "due date for filing the return" in question in which to do so.

In a development that is being seen by American expat groups in France as a major win, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service has admitted in a U.S. Tax Court that it had wrongly collected millions of dollars of tax from France-resident American citizens, ending a years-long legal saga that could see millions of dollars paid to U.S. expats who have lived in and been filing tax returns from France, in the form of refunds.

Approval this week by the House of Representatives of legislation that would bar the U.S. Internal Revenue Service from  offering taxpayers a free suite of tax preparation software is not being seen as an issue that would greatly affect American taxpayers currently resident overseas. 

As the countdown  continues to Tax Day in the U.S., on Monday, 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.

Yup. For all its unflinching greediness, which seems to radiate from its very website at this time of year, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service would seem, on at least some level, to be aware of certain ironies, hypocrisies and even undeniably funny things that are fundamental to the business of taxing people...

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service, which has seen its operating budget slashed over the past eight or nine years, appears to be looking to increase its use of penalties against those non-U.S. resident taxpayers who fail to file documents or pay the taxes they owe on time, U.S. Tax and Financial Services Ltd founder and chief executive Darlene Hart says.

While sources in Washington continue to suggest that tweaks may yet be made to Donald Trump’s 2017 tax overhaul, U.S. taxpayers, and their accountants, are having to get on with filing their 2018 tax returns...

The Internal Revenue Service has updated its guidance for the handling of U.S. taxpayers who come forward with previously-undisclosed funds, and in the process introducing, as it said it would, a tougher approach.