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Alliance promoting extended certificate validation for Web sites touts the benefits of online shopping survey and new rules by IRS for all 2009 e-filing sites.

What was originally a three-page $700 billion bailout bill has been larded up with IRS snooping provisions and tax credits for green tech, SunKist tuna, and wooden arrows.

The House of Representatives is debating the bill on Friday.

The IRS has been targeting companies that engage in transactions that have no purpose other than to reduce or eliminate tax liabilities.

The IRS on Wednesday said it is offering to settle tax shelter abuse cases against about 45 companies, but they have to stop using the shelters by 2010.

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Justice Department officials have asked a federal court to let the IRS request client information from Swiss bank UBS, after a former UBS banker facing charges recently testified that U.S. taxpayers had about $20 billion in "undeclared" accounts.

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Italy's IRS created a grand snooping opportunity Wednesday when it posted on its Web site the taxable income of just about every Italian citizen — for a few hours.

There was a huge outcry, and the tax collector had to take the information down.

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You've tried staring your computer down, but it's not blinking. No matter how many times you go over the figures, you get the same answer.

That number on your screen - what you're paying the IRS this year - is more than your dad earned in his five best years.

You can't help thinking, Why am I such a chump when other people must be getting off scot-free?

The IRS on Monday said it would begin sending out 130 million tax rebate payments aimed at boosting the economy on May 2.

The IRS on Monday said it would begin sending out 130 million tax rebate payments aimed at boosting the economy on May 2.

The IRS on Monday said it would begin sending out 130 million tax rebate payments aimed at boosting the economy on May 2.

More Americans than ever before are being audited, as the Internal Revenue Service is working hard to collect every single greenback it can.

The total number of individual returns audited last year increased 7% from 2006, shooting up from 1.29 million to 1.38 million audits in 2007.