IRS

US tech innovation dreams soured by changed R&D tax laws

But Congress is on top of that, right?

On-Prem12 Jan 2024 | 5

Microsoft ends its week on a high – after a trying time with tax bills and Copilot costs

Kettle Bit of a Blizzard of news for Redmond

Software15 Oct 2023 | 2

Hell no, we won’t pay, says Microsoft as Uncle Sam sends $29B bill for back taxes

Says it has enough cash to foot the demand

Software11 Oct 2023 | 60

IRS using AI to catch rich people and tax-dodging corps

AI in brief Plus: Google CEO says AI will be biggest tech shift in our lives, new official AI words on Dictionary.com

AI + ML11 Sep 2023 | 12

April brings tulips, taxes ... and phisherfolk scammers

Tactical#Octopus: Don't let users click on that zip file

Research03 Apr 2023 | 6

Open up, it's the IRS. We're here about the crypto tax you dodged

'At least ten' people didn't declare coin income. Wow, what a bust

Cyber-crime23 Sep 2022 | 23

LockBit ransomware gang claims it ransacked Italy’s tax agency

Miscreants boast of 78GB haul, officials say everything's fine

Security26 Jul 2022 | 7

Feds raid dark web market selling data on 24 million Americans

SSNDOB sold email addresses, passwords, credit card numbers, SSNs and more

Cyber-crime08 Jun 2022 | 9

Did ID.me hoodwink Americans with IRS facial-recognition tech?

Senators want the FTC to investigate "evidence of deceptive statements"

AI + ML18 May 2022 | 14

FTC sues Intuit for false advertising, says 'free' TurboTax isn't always free

Folks fill out online forms only to be told to upgrade to paid versions

Personal Tech29 Mar 2022 | 45

IRS doesn't completely scrap facial recognition, just makes it optional

But hey, new rules on deleting your selfies

AI + ML23 Feb 2022 | 17

Face Off: IRS kills plan to verify taxpayers with facial recognition database

Updated Uncle Sam takes security, privacy concerns seriously, it says here

AI + ML07 Feb 2022 | 12

One-character bug gives away $90m in COMP tokens – recipients can keep 10% or consider themselves doxxed

Hand back the money or I'm letting the IRS know, says DeFi biz boss

Software01 Oct 2021 | 43

Ex-IBM whistleblower's suit back in court, 8 years after he alleged irregularities in $265m IRS software deal

Judges revive some of the claims

Legal08 Jul 2021 | 4

Ever had a bogus call from someone claiming to be the IRS? A tax scam ringleader just got sent down for 20 years

Hitesh Patel also faces $9m payback for defrauding thousands of US citizens

Security01 Dec 2020 | 21

Yahoo! owes! us! one! billion! dollars! in! back! taxes! say! US! govt! beancounters!

IRS willing to settle for a seventh of what it asked for - it's nice to be rich

On-Prem17 Jun 2020 | 7

Facebook tells US tax bods: Swear to God, we were only worth $6.5bn in 2010 because we were menaced by... MySpace and smartphones

IRS wants Zuckerberg's empire to cough up $9bn in back taxes

Personal Tech19 Feb 2020 | 25

Required: Massive email fraud bust. Tired: Cops who did the paperwork. Expired: 281 suspected con men's freedom

Alleged whaling crooks cuffed in global crime crackdown

Security10 Sep 2019 | 8

Don't be Russian to judgement but... Bloke accused of $1.5m+ tax filing biz hack, fraud

Nabbed in Thailand, extradited... and now formally charged

Security30 Apr 2019 | 16

Free online tax filing? Yeah, that'll soon be illegal thanks to rare US Congressional unity

Tax software lobbying unites politicians like nothing else. Happy Tax Day America!

Legal09 Apr 2019 | 107

*taps on glass* Hellooo, IRS? Anyone in? Anyone guarding taxpayers' data from crooks? Hellooo?

Could someone slide a note on identity-theft protection under the door? Helloooo?

Security12 Jan 2019 | 46

Bethesda blunders, IRS sounds the alarm, China ransomware, and more

Roundup Plus, US Congress wants more cybersec training, better breach laws

Security08 Dec 2018 | 14

Secret IBM script could have prevented 11-hour US tax day outage

Two chances missed to swerve mainframe drive array bug

On-Prem25 Sep 2018 | 20

US taxman wants AI to do the security checks it seemingly can't do itself

That would be all of the security checks, then

AI + ML10 Jul 2018 | 21

Facebook stuck with IRS bill after court tosses $7 BEEELLION appeal

Not even Zuckerberg can escape the tax man

On-Prem15 May 2018 | 11

It's US Tax Day, so of course the IRS's servers have taken a swan dive

Updated 59% of our systems are obsolete, agency boss tells congressional hearing

Systems17 Apr 2018 | 36

Crypto-cash souk Coinbase forced to rat out its high rollers to probing US taxmen

Broker claims 'partial victory' after caving to IRS demand

Security30 Nov 2017 | 28

IRS tax bods tell Americans to chill out about Equifax

Your personal data was probably already in crims' hands

Security18 Oct 2017 | 18

Nothing matters any more... Now hapless Equifax bags $7.5m IT contract with US taxmen

They're just trolling us at this point

Security03 Oct 2017 | 37

Amazon dodges $1.5bn US tax bill: It's OK to run sales through Europe out of IRS reach – court

If only we could all open a Luxembourg office, eh?

On-Prem24 Mar 2017 | 22

Beancounter nicks $5m from bosses, blows $1m on fantasy babe Kate Upton's mobe game

So that's how Game of War can afford her

Personal Tech12 Dec 2016 | 49

No matter who becomes US president, America's tech giants are going to be quids in

Both parties promising massive tax break on overseas earnings

On-Prem21 Oct 2016 | 30

The IRS spaffed $12m on Office 365 subscription IT NEVER USED

Taxman can audit all your accounts, but can't tell cloud from on-premises

SaaS14 Oct 2016 | 38

Couple in the cooler for sucking $1m out of Uncle Sam via IRS 'Get Transcript' scam

DoJ says pair exploited web tools to file fake returns

Security27 Jul 2016 | 6

IRS kills off PINs citing increasing suspicious activity

Pulls plug early

Security26 Jun 2016 | 14

US taxmen pull plug on anti-identity-theft system used by identity thieves

That's not how this works, that's not how any of this works

Security08 Mar 2016 | 28

Bungling Seagate staffer leaked coworkers' social security numbers, other info to email fraudsters

Always check the headers

Security08 Mar 2016 | 12

IRS: Er, those 100,000 tax records illegally accessed? Make that over 700,000

Third 'hacking' review shows epic levels of fail

Security27 Feb 2016 | 29

Gird your coins: A phishing tsunami is smashing into America

Don't let crooks plunder your paycheck … that's our job, says IRS

On-Prem19 Feb 2016 | 18

Crims unleashed IRS-stabbing malware in bid to rob 464,000 people

You'd think someone filing your tax return for you would be doing you a favor. Guess again

Security10 Feb 2016 | 13

US taxmen borked in computer cockup riddle

IRS says its online form filing system is, er, offline

On-Prem04 Feb 2016 | 20

IRS 'inadvertently' wiped hard drive Microsoft demanded in audit row

Sure, we'd love to help your case against us. Now, where could that disk have gone?

Legal21 Jan 2016 | 43

US taxman slammed: Half of the IRS's servers still run doomed Windows Server 2003

And 1,300 PCs running Win XP that it can't find

OSes14 Oct 2015 | 28

Yahoo's! tax-free! Alibaba! switcheroo! gets! a! rough! ride! from! US! taxmen!

Not going to make this easy

On-Prem09 Sep 2015 | 1

IRS: Tax-record snaffle scam actually 200% worse than first feared

100,000 people's details slurped? No, what we meant to say was 334,000

Security17 Aug 2015 | 11

The US taxman thinks Microsoft owes billions. Prove it, says Microsoft

Redmond: It's been years. Get in court and show us the bill, or get lost

On-Prem20 Jul 2015 | 94

Bloke thrown in the clink for hacking SIXTY PER CENT of Americans

Selling pilfered personal info to criminal rackets? That's a no-no, Ngo

Security16 Jul 2015 | 12

THE TRUTH: IRS 'cyber-hack' exposes 100,000 people whose identities were already stolen

A new low for the Feds – or cyber-journalism? The latter

Security26 May 2015 | 12

America was founded on a dislike of taxes, so how did it get the IRS?

The eXpat files From Cambridge to the other Newark, via the valley of bureaucratic hell

On-Prem19 Apr 2015 | 109

Ready to fill out your US taxes? Cool. Got ObamaCare? Not so fast

If only there were a meme to sarcastically express gratitude to the President…

Legal20 Feb 2015 | 9

US taxmen won't say WHY they're probing Microsoft. So Redmond is suing the IRS

Auditors very interested in what happened in 2004 to 2009

Legal24 Nov 2014 | 41

Revealed: What the US taxman really thinks of crypto-cash Bitcoin

Essential reading if you want to pay your staff in BTC, for instance

Legal26 Mar 2014 | 36

Google says it paid TOO MUCH tax, wants $83.5m refund

Claims it was wrongly denied deduction in AOL stock sale

On-Prem28 Jun 2013 | 42

HP's Ray Lane faces $100m tax bill over 'sham' tax shelter

Picks accountants like he does software firms

On-Prem07 Jun 2013 | 14

ACLU documents shows free access to emails for IRS tax police

If it's opened, or old, then no warrant needed

Legal10 Apr 2013 | 30

Unisys re-ups $650m deal to look after US taxman's big iron

IRS slurps over $2 TREEELLION a year of taxpayers' cash

Systems25 Feb 2013 | 3