Richard, Harris, Ingram and Bozeman, PC

03/20/2025

"Due to successful evasion techniques used by these cybercriminals, old websites with good reputations and rankings on search engines garner a sense of legitimacy among the targeted audience"

Tax scammers are exploiting the current political divide and resurrecting old websites to lure potential victims, according to a new report.

01/10/2025

Newly expanded and improved tools will be available when tax season kicks off this month.

09/06/2024

Beware of Business Ownership Information (BOI) Scams! The pictured form is part of a scam that is directed at business owners. Reporting of BOI is required but must be done online and does not require a fee. If you have questions please contact our office.

01/24/2024

"Even if Congress could pass the bill before filing season starts, changes that are retroactively applied to the 2023 tax season would create headaches for the IRS and would surely lead to a delay in processing returns."

Ways and Means Committee approves wide-ranging tax bill

01/11/2024

"Tax filing season will officially begin on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024, the Internal Revenue Service said Monday."

The agency is anticipating over 128.7 million individual tax returns by the April 15, 2024, tax deadline.

10/19/2023

"The IRS created the withdrawal option to help small business owners and others who were pressured or misled by ERC marketers or promoters into filing ineligible claims. Claims that are withdrawn will be treated as if they were never filed. The IRS will not impose penalties or interest."

IR-2023-193: IRS announces withdrawal process for Employee Retention Credit claims; special initiative aimed at helping businesses concerned about an ineligible claim amid aggressive marketing, scams Internal Revenue Service (IRS) sent this bulletin at 10/19/2023 09:05 AM EDT News Essentials The New...

09/15/2023

"Amid rising concerns about a flood of improper Employee Retention Credit claims, the Internal Revenue Service today announced an immediate moratorium through at least the end of the year on processing new claims for the pandemic-era relief program to protect honest small business owners from scams."

IR-2023-169: To protect taxpayers from scams, IRS orders immediate stop to new Employee Retention Credit processing amid surge of questionable claims; concerns from tax pros, aggressive marketing to ineligible applicants highlights unacceptable risk to businesses and the tax system Internal Revenue....

07/27/2023

"The further we get from the pandemic, we believe the percentage of legitimate claims coming in is declining," he said. "Instead, we continue to see more and more questionable claims coming in following the onslaught of misleading marketing from promoters pushing businesses to apply. To address this, the IRS continues to intensify our compliance work in this area."

The Internal Revenue Service will be adding extra procedures to deter scammers who have been inundating the agency with bogus claims for the Employee Retention Credit.

07/26/2023

"If the provision goes into effect as scheduled, it could unleash "a whirlwind of confusion and frustration for any Americans who sell even a small amount of goods on sites like eBay, Venmo, Facebook Marketplace, Etsy and more"

The reprieve at the beginning of 2023 was temporary — and nothing has been done to fix the long-term issue.

07/05/2023

"The envelope has a letter bearing the IRS masthead and claiming that the notice is "in relation to your unclaimed refund."

The letter includes contact information and a phone number that don't belong to the IRS, but it asks for sensitive personal information from taxpayers — including detailed pictures of driver's licenses — that can be used by identity thieves to try to get a tax refund and other sensitive financial information."

The Internal Revenue Service is cautioning taxpayers to beware of a new scam in which fraudsters are sending out cardboard envelopes from a delivery service asking for personal info.