Tax preparation can be daunting, but getting your tax transcript from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) doesn’t have to be. Whether you need it for a loan application or simply to keep your records ...

You'd like to buckle down and do your income taxes. Really, you would. But you're missing one key form: last year's federal income tax return. But wait? It will cost you $30 to get an actual copy?

While it's a good idea to hang onto your tax returns after you file them, there's another recourse if you don't have access to actual copies of your return: the tax transcript. A tax transcript is a ...

Plan ahead. That's the advice from Internal Revenue Service (IRS) this year. As tax season approaches, IRS is advising taxpayers to plan ahead when requesting copies of any tax transcripts. If you don ...

Whether you're filing a simple or complicated tax return, it's critical to make sure it's thorough — and you may have free online tools at your fingertips, in the form of IRS transcripts, to make the ...

The Internal Revenue Service has re-enabled a service on its Web site that allows taxpayers to get a copy of their previous year’s tax transcript. The renewed effort to beef up taxpayer authentication ...

Most accounting professionals will tell you to retain a copy of your federal tax return for at least three years, since you never know when you might need it. You might, for example, need a copy of ...

In an era of unceasing horror stories about breaches of sensitive consumer information, here’s some disquieting news for homebuyers: Federal auditors say the popular “tax transcript” program run by ...

The IRS and its Security Summit partners have achieved much success in combating identity theft (see “Tax Matters: IRS Touts Progress Against Taxpayer Identity Theft,” JofA, Jan. 2018). However, an ...

In an era of unceasing horror stories about breaches of sensitive consumer information, here’s some disquieting news for home buyers: Federal auditors say the popular “tax transcript” program run by ...

WASHINGTON — You probably heard about the massive security breach the IRS disclosed that allowed hackers to obtain detailed tax-return information on 104,000 taxpayers. But you might not have ...