The Coalition Against Scam and Scheme Threats (CASST), convened at the request of IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel, will work toward having new protections in place by the 2025 filing season.

The IRS said Thursday it will reopen its voluntary disclosure program to allow businesses to correct questionable claims for the pandemic-era employee retention credit.

CPAs assess how their return preparation products performed.

The most recent draft of the form for reporting digital asset transactions reflects the final regulations for custodial broker reporting that the IRS released in June.

The PSA uses a chat between friends in a coffee shop to educate small businesses about beneficial ownership information reporting, which 32.6 million businesses must file.

The IRS moved the moratorium date forward into early 2024. Also, it announced sending disallowance letters to some businesses with invalid claims and plans for payments to others.

FinCEN, which oversees beneficial ownership information reports, has received just 2.7 million of the 32.6 million reports that it expects. Through June, FinCEN said, it has reached more than 90,000 stakeholders.

A tax practitioner complained about a six-week wait for a response to help a client with a financial hardship who was owed a refund, leading to the unflattering review by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

Barry Melancon, CPA, CGMA, AICPA & CIMA’s CEO, said the decisions will create uncertainty for a profession that craves certainty.

The IRS said the five signs are the result of what IRS compliance teams found while analyzing and processing claims for the employee retention credit (ERC). The Service plans to briefly reopen its voluntary disclosure program.

Commissioner Danny Werfel said the IRS is “reversing situations that have long hampered the IRS and frustrated taxpayers.” Treasury and the IRS announced continued improvements in digital systems, attributing those to funding from the Inflation Reduction Act.

Almost 16,000 entities will spend over 8.7 million hours seeking access to beneficial ownership information in the first year, FinCEN estimated in a new notice.

The final regulations reflect changes to the required minimum distribution rules made by the SECURE Act and SECURE 2.0 and generally follow proposed regulations issued in 2022.

The IRS is collecting on tax liabilities that were not “even in dispute,” Commissioner Danny Werfel said, but the IRS did not previously have the resources to pursue payment.