The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department released final rules today requiring US banks to report interest payments made to nonresident aliens. The regulations will apply to payments starting in 2013 and are part of the government's
Today is April 17, which is every Americans' favorite day, because it's the day our taxes are due! And, as you foreigners can probably tell if you pay attention.
Did you put off filing your tax return until the last minute because you knew you'd owe Uncle Sam? You, my friend, are not alone. Although the vast majority of taxpayers get refunds, there are those of us for whom Tax Day is
David Foster Wallace's posthumous tax-obsessed novel 'The Pale King' gets fact checked against what really happens at the IRS. Do tax collectors sometimes drive ice-cream trucks? Do special Social Security numbers set them apart from the rest of
In the 2008 presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama proposed a system by which the Internal Revenue Service would supply taxpayers with forms “pre-filled” with the relevant data, requiring them only to “verify, sign and return” the digital