Members of three tribal nations across Montana and Arizona have until September 28 to file federal tax returns postponed by separate storms, two and a half weeks ahead of the October 15 deadline everyone else on extension is working toward. The IRS issued the relief in three separate notices covering the Crow Reservation, the Fort…

Households and small businesses across 21 Indiana counties, including Marion County, home to Indianapolis, now have until February 1, 2027, to file a range of federal tax returns after storms that began August 11 triggered a federal disaster declaration. The relief, issued by the IRS as Notice IN-2026-01, follows a FEMA declaration covering severe storms,…

Two numbers moved in opposite directions inside the IRS this year, and both point in the same direction for taxpayers: enforcement is shifting away from face-to-face audits of high earners and toward mass-mailed notices. Examinations of people with more than $400,000 in income fell 27 percent from fiscal 2024 to fiscal 2025, even as the…

The IRS’s program for building a tax return on someone else’s behalf closed 592,800 cases in fiscal year 2025, more than double the 252,100 it closed two years earlier. The jump reflects a pandemic-era program coming back online rather than a new crackdown, but the mechanics matter to anyone who has gone a year or…

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration says the IRS is sitting on 73.2 million individual cases in which someone appears to owe a tax return for one of the last five years and has not filed one. Most of that backlog built up while the agency’s usual nonfiler notices sat idle for years at…

Spreadsheets, YouTube videos and “tax planning” posts claiming to show the 2027 federal income tax brackets have been circulating online this fall, some listing specific dollar cutoffs for every filing status. None of those numbers come from the Internal Revenue Service, because the agency has not published them. For a household trying to plan next…

Three separate federal disaster declarations, issued the same day for three different states, have pushed a wide range of tax deadlines to November 2, 2026, for households and businesses in the affected counties. The relief covers late 2025 income tax returns, quarterly payroll deposits and estimated tax payments, all landing on the same date regardless…

For most of the country, tax deadlines closed months ago and will not reopen until next spring. Households connected to three Native American reservations are working from a different calendar entirely. Three separate IRS disaster declarations — covering the Crow Tribe of Montana, the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes, and the San Carlos Apache…

The Internal Revenue Service has given people and businesses in Hawaii County until February 1, 2027, to file federal tax returns delayed by the earthquake that struck the Big Island in May 2026. For anyone still dealing with earthquake damage, an extension like that can feel like the whole tax calendar has been pushed back.…

Millions of taxpayers finish a filing season owing more than expected, and the confusion that follows usually comes down to one number: does the balance qualify for a quick, no-fee arrangement or a slower monthly plan that carries a setup cost. The Internal Revenue Service’s payment plan rules answer that question with a specific dollar…