Federal stimulus payments may have been critical to helping many taxpayers make it through the first year of COVID, but they also were a huge source of errors on tax returns. In the year to Dec. 31, ...

A new law was signed on December 1 to make IRS tax error notices clearer and easier to understand for taxpayers. The law is called the IRS Math and Taxpayer Help Act ...

In taxpayer disputes over its correction of math errors on returns, the IRS was wrong 17% of the time and late in resolving disputes 40% of the time, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax ...

President Donald Trump has signed a new law tightening the rules around IRS "math error" notices, forcing the agency to show its work and giving taxpayers a clearer, enforceable 60-day window to push ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Taxpayers who make math mistakes in their tax filings will get clearer notifications from the Internal Revenue Service this year.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Taxes are all about numbers, and each year, millions of math errors are caught by the IRS. For this tax season, taxpayers will now receive letters from the IRS detailing where they ...