Millions of Americans who file their own returns have long learned about tax math mistakes only after the Internal Revenue ...

The Senate unanimously passed legislation requiring the IRS to simplify error notices for taxpayers, providing clearer ...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announced that her bipartisan IRS Math Act has officially been signed into law, aimed at ...

Seeing as Tuesday night is the deadline for filing tax returns, and seeing as data is FiveThirtyEight’s raison d’être, I was excited to find a set of statistics ...

While often referred to as the “non-partisan” Government Accountability Office (GAO), its results are often skewed and used to forward partisan goals. In a report released last summer, the GAO claimed ...

President Obama recently announced a “deficit reduction plan” that includes both a massive tax increase and a massive increase in federal spending. Insisting that the only way to close the deficit gap ...

Nothing gets lawmakers and pundits more outraged than government’s proverbial waste, fraud, and abuse. Nearly always, these stories involve spending. But taxes are hardly immune. One case of pure ...

Iowans and the future of our state just took a licking. We might not see it fully for a couple of years, but that’s the impact of massive tax cuts that will whack 40 percent off the income tax, the ...