e-News for Tax Professionals 2022-24

The IRS announced expanded voice bot options to help eligible taxpayers easily verify their identity to set up or modify a payment plan while avoiding long wait times. The IRS has been using voice bots on numerous toll-free lines since January, enabling taxpayers with simple payment or notice questions to get what they need quickly and avoid waiting. This article is also available in Simplified Chinese.

2.??Five things to know about the 2022 IRS Nationwide Tax Forum

Watch an IRS exclusive interview with Tax Talk Today to hear Five Things to Know about the 2022 IRS Nationwide Tax Forum. This year?s five-week program will deliver livestreamed webinars every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday beginning July 19 through Aug. 18. Visit the tax forum website for this year?s webinar schedule, a list of the virtual expo hall exhibitors, information on how to register and more.

3.??IRS Whistleblower Office collects more than $245 million from Whistleblower information

In fiscal year 2021, the Whistleblower Office made 179 awards to whistleblowers totaling more than $36 million (before sequestration). This included 20 awards under IRC section 7623(b). Proceeds collected from this information summed up to more than $245 million. Learn more in the IRS Whistleblower Office 2021 Annual Report to Congress.

4.??New deputy chief for Criminal Investigation division selected

Guy Ficco has been selected as the next Deputy Chief for IRS Criminal Investigation. He will oversee 20 field offices and 11 foreign posts, including about 2,000 special agents investigating tax fraud and other financial crimes. Ficco succeeds Jim Robnett, who retired on July 15 after 36 years of service at the IRS, 28 of which were with IRS-CI.

5.? News from the Justice Department?s Tax Division

A federal court in the Eastern District of New York has permanently barred Brooklyn-based defendants Keith Sang, Kashana Sang, Tareek Lewis, Kimberly Brown and their business, K&L Accounting Group Inc., from preparing federal tax returns for others.

Florida tax preparer Guy Telfort pleaded guilty to criminal contempt for continuing to prepare and file tax returns with the IRS in violation of a federal court order barring him from doing so. Telfort potentially faces a period of incarceration, term of supervised release and monetary fine.

6.??Technical Guidance

Revenue Ruling 2022-12 provides various prescribed rates for federal income tax purposes including the applicable federal interest rates, the adjusted applicable federal interest rates, the adjusted federal long-term rate and the adjusted federal long-term tax-exempt rate.

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