The TikTok ban on U.S. government devices is proving hard to enforce. A month after the IRS was found to be in non-compliance with the federally mandated ban on the Beijing-based video app, two Republ
The IRS will test a free tax filing service in 2024 for a subset of lucky taxpayers in as many as 13 states, the agency announced today. Direct File, as the service is called, is a shot across the bow
Microsoft says that it’s facing a hefty tax bill over historical accounting practices dating back nearly 20 years. In a filing yesterday with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the co
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to send four agents who specialize in investigating cybercrime to Australia, Singapore, Colombia, and Germany starting this summer. These four new positions re
“That was the only path through this darkness,” says U.S. prosecutor Zia Faruqui. “The darker the darknet gets, the way that you shine the light is following the money.” In “Tracers in t
A lack of formal guidance from U.S. regulators requires taxpayers to interpret how existing laws intended to regulate traditional assets might apply to crypto.
Twitter’s brief morning outage was stressful enough — but those who’ve waited until the last possible moment to pay their tax bills have a much more distressing site crash to worry about: The In
It’s no secret that the cryptocurrency market cap has grown faster than the broader crypto industry. This means that the options for tools to help hold, track and manage your cryptocurrency are
When you apply for credit, you essentially ask a lender to evaluate your financial picture to make an informed decision about your approval, rate and terms. The information that lenders use primarily
The IRS has officially stated that <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/bitcoin">bitcoin</a> is a property - similar to any other valuable commodity - rather than a currency. What does this mean? Not m
The brainiacs at MIT created a cool visualization program to map how the National Security Agency can understand your relationships based on who you contact via email and how often. While we still don
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/irs.jpg" />Another potshot aimed at the working man, friends. The IRS is looking to collecting more taxes on your work-provided cellphone
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/googleirs.jpg" />So there's a longish—the better ones are always longish—post over at Fast Company that details the perils of
As you may or may not have noticed on your normal phone bill, there’s a federal excise tax on long-distance phone service. Not only do consumers loathe it, but the government does as well. So as
Ben Franklin was pretty much right on the money when he said that this country is nothing but death and taxes. Tax experts are pushing the IRS to force online auction sites like eBay and Amazon to tra