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The IRS Reduced Earned Income Tax Credit Examinations in Fiscal Year 2024, but the Process to Mitigate Racial Disparity Needs to Be Defined

Report Number
2025-308-020

… The IRS Reduced Earned Income Tax Credit Examinations in Fiscal Year 2024, but the … the EITC, in Fiscal Year (FY) 2024. What TIGTA Found After acknowledging publicly that there were racial … which the IRS would compare future results. Management added that the IRS’s goal is to fairly select taxpayers for …

Vague and Outdated Guidance Creates Challenges for Tax-Exempt Hospital Oversight

Report Number
2025-100-019

… Oversight May 15, 2025 2025-100-019 Audit $0 $0 The Commissioner, TE/GE Division, should update guidance to … (PPACA) requirements5 – The PPACA, enacted in March 2010, added I.R.C. § 501(r), which imposes four requirements that … unit completed 22 examinations of organizations referred after a CBAR, and more than half resulted in a no-change. In …

The IRS Could Leverage Examination Results in Artificial Intelligence Examination Case Selection Models and Improve Processes to Evaluate Performance

Report Number
2025-308-022

… May 19, 2025 2025-308-022 Audit $0 $0 The Chief Tax Compliance Officer should require SB/SE and LB&I … in changes. Consequently, additional examination closures after September 30, 2023, may result in lowering the … the productivity of issues not suggested by the model but added by the examiners and their manager. If an issue is …

Thousands of Notifications to Taxpayers Affected by the Large-Scale Data Breach Were Returned Undeliverable

Report Number
2025-IE-R019

… Undeliverable May 27, 2025 Report Number: 2025-IE-R019 TIGTACommunications@tigta.treas.gov | www.tigta.gov TREASURY … were inactive, so the data breach indicator could not be added to their accounts. The IRS could not locate an account … approximately 406,000 taxpayers. According to the IRS, after RAAS completes its analysis, the agency will begin …

Interim Results of the 2025 Filing Season

Report Number
2025-400-026

… Filing Season June 6, 2025 Report Number: 2025-400-026 TIGTACommunications@tigta.treas.gov | www.tigta.gov TREASURY … 2,200 Submission Processing function employee job offers after an executive order issued on January 20, 2025.5 3 … 28, 2025, the IRS reports that 247,220 tax returns were added to the IRS’s FixERS tool for potential systemic …

Addressing Complex and Inconsistent Earned Income Tax Credit and Additional Child Tax Credit Rules May Reduce Unintentional Errors and Increase Participation

Report Number
2021-40-070

… Addressing Complex and Inconsistent Earned Income Tax Credit and … tax credit, and… Internal Revenue Service Yes 2988c455-fc1c-4e6d-8623-fb8c731134ee File 202140070fr.pdf Yes … earned income exclusion. Excluded foreign earned income is added to AGI. Investment Income Investment income must be …

The Chief, FMSS, should work with the Employee Development team to ensure that course #71555, SAMC Incident Reporting, is added to the profiles of all FMSS Section security chiefs, physical security specialists, and physical security assistants as…

Recommendation number
6
… to ensure that course #71555, SAMC Incident Reporting, is added to the profiles of all FMSS Section security chiefs, … IRS’s training system and develop a process to track the completion of the course. Process, Training, and Awareness … IRS’s training system and develop a process to track the completion of the course. … The Chief, FMSS, should work …