By Anna Scott Farrell

A payroll provider for a maintenance company never passed along interest payments from the Internal Revenue Service related to its clients' pandemic-era relief claims, the company alleged in a proposed class action filed in Washington federal court.

By Kat Lucero

A consumer-protection boutique law firm accused the IRS of illegally enforcing payroll taxes while delaying the processing of pandemic-era employee retention tax credits, which the firm claimed would have helped with compliance, according to a complaint in Connecticut federal court.

By Anna Scott Farrell

The trial of a strip club operator accused of hiding $5.7 million in income from the IRS and lying to get a pandemic relief grant was pushed back Thursday after he requested more time to allow a forensic accountant to review financial documents.

By Ryan Harroff

Collecting sales tax is not part of a commercial transaction even if it occurs at the same time as that transaction, according to a Wednesday ruling from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in a suit accusing American Eagle and other retailers of charging wrongful taxes on face masks.

By Anna Scott Farrell

The Internal Revenue Service defended its process for rejecting applications for pandemic-era worker tax credits that it deems too risky to pay out, telling an Arizona federal court that contrary to the claims of two companies suing the agency over denials, its response has been reasonable.

By Anna Scott Farrell

Seven people have been accused of trying to defraud the federal government of more than $600 million by filing more than 8,000 false tax returns in what the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday called "the nation's largest COVID-19 tax credit scheme."