Millions of Americans who file their own returns have long learned about tax math mistakes only after the Internal Revenue Service quietly changed their refund or balance due. A new federal law ...

The IRS uses several programs to check the accuracy of a tax return, and one of these programs is the math error program (Sec. 6213(b)). In this program, the IRS uses ...

Thanks to the IRS MATH Act, the IRS must now explain mistakes in plain English, show any adjustments, and put your 60-day appeal deadline front and center. It will be a major upgrade from previously ...

The IRS’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year appears to have gotten worse amid reports that the agency sent millions of “math-error” notices during the first half of 2021 to taxpayers who made ...