Rob Kovacev News Today

As the House of Representatives and Senate focus on year-end legislative priorities, both chambers paid significant attention to the IRS last week.

Representative Mike Johnson (R-LA) was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives last week, winning the vote of every House Republican member and ending a three-week political power impasse.

The due date to file a tax return this year is Tue., April 18 and it comes against the backdrop of some major structural changes in U.S. tax administration that have been a serious point of contention between Democrats and Republicans.

Cyber security experts told Weekly Tax in interviews that chatbots threaten to advance the credibility and sophistication and success of tax scams in leaps and bounds.