News releases for current month

IR-2025-11, Jan. 13, 2025 — The Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service today issued proposed regulations for corporate separations and reorganizations, including reporting requirements for multi-year corporate separations.

IR-2025-10, Jan. 10, 2025 — The Internal Revenue Service announced today tax relief for individuals and businesses in southern California affected by wildfires and straight-line winds that began on Jan. 7, 2025.

IR-2025-09, Jan. 10, 2025 — The Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service today issued proposed regulations addressing certain SECURE 2.0 Act provisions, including a provision generally requiring newly-established 401(k) and 403(b) plans to automatically enroll eligible employees beginning with the 2025 plan year.

IR-2025-08, Jan. 10, 2025 — The Internal Revenue Service today announced that the nation’s 2025 tax season will start on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, and will feature expanded and enhanced tools to help taxpayers as a result of the agency’s historic modernization efforts.

IR-2025-07, Jan. 10, 2025 — The Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service issued proposed regulations today addressing several SECURE 2.0 Act provisions relating to catch-up contributions, which are additional contributions under a 401(k) or similar workplace retirement plan that generally are allowed with respect to employees who are age 50 or older.

IR-2025-06, Jan. 10, 2025 — The Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service today issued final regulations identifying certain partnership related-party “basis shifting” transactions as transactions of interest – TOIs – subject to the rules for reportable transactions.

IR-2025-05, Jan. 8, 2025 — The Internal Revenue Service today granted taxpayers an extra day, until Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, to file any return or pay any tax originally due on Thursday, Jan. 9.

IR-2025-04, Jan. 8, 2025 — National Taxpayer Advocate Erin M. Collins today released her 2024 Annual Report to Congress, finding overall improvement in IRS taxpayer service but also highlighting persistent challenges, particularly delays in processing Employee Retention Credit (ERC) claims and resolving Identity Theft Victim Assistance cases.

IR-2025-03, Jan. 7, 2025 — The Internal Revenue Service announced today that the IRS Free File Guided Tax Software will be available Friday for taxpayers ahead of the official start of tax season later this month.

IR-2025-02, Jan. 7, 2025 — The Internal Revenue Service today encouraged taxpayers who paid too little tax in 2024 to make a fourth quarter estimated tax payment on or before Jan. 15, 2025.

IR-2025-01, Jan. 3, 2025 — The Internal Revenue Service today reminded disaster-area taxpayers who received extensions to file their 2023 returns that, depending upon their location, their returns are due by Feb. 3 or May 1, 2025.

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