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Plenty Of Changes For Tax Filers This Year

Experts recommend using some type of guidance to navigate forms and maximize your returns.

2013/03/18

As The Tax Man Cometh, Tips For Getting Ready

The IRS expects 75 percent of all 2012 returns will get a refund, so if you haven’t started preparing your taxes yet, do it.

2013/03/04

IRS: Be On The Lookout For Phony Tax Preparers

Each year, phony businesses set up temporary shop with the sole purpose of stealing your money. Now the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is advising you to be on the lookout for phony tax preparers.

CBSDFW.COM–2013/02/18

IRS Continues To Battle Tax Identity Theft Problem

The IRS is tackling a rapidly growing problem — tax-related identity theft. Last year, there were more than 640,000 incidents of tax fraud; most involving the theft of social security numbers to file false tax returns claiming monies due.

CBSDFW.COM–2013/02/12

IRS Pushes Back Start Of Tax Filing Season

If each year you are an ‘early bird’ and complete and file your taxes as soon as legally possible, listen up! The ‘fiscal cliff’ fiasco is having a trickle down effect and the Internal Revenue Service has postponed the start of tax filing season.

CBSDFW.COM–2013/01/09

Anson Chi, Plano Bomb Suspect, Indicted By Grand Jury

Anson Chi, the man who was arrested in connection with a bomb that went off near a gas main line, has been indicted.

2012/07/11

Federal Judge Orders Plano Explosion Suspect Held Without Bail

A federal judge on Friday ordered the suspect accused of setting off an explosion while tampering with a Plano gas main should be held without bail.

2012/07/06

IRS agent search a southern Dallas medical clinic on May 1, 2012. (Credit: CBSDFW.com)

Feds: Physician Made $2 Million At Dallas ‘Pill Mill’ Clinic

According to a federal search warrant, the target of Tuesday’s raid at a southern Dallas medical clinic earned more than $2 million in the past year by issuing illegal narcotics prescriptions to any patient who had proper identification.

2012/05/02

IRS Raids Medical Clinic In Southern Dallas

Early this morning, Dallas police and agents whose shirts identified them as criminal investigations agents of the Internal Revenue Service carted box after box of documents from a shuttered south Dallas medical facility.

2012/05/01

Crane operators and fire investigators work at the burned home of Joseph Stack on February 19, 2010 in Austin. The day prior Joseph Stack set fire to his house before crashing his plane into an IRS office building in North Austin. (credit: Ben Sklar /Getty Images)

Texan Among Winners Of Carnegie Medals For Heroism

A Texas man who saved six people after a tax protester crashed a small plane into a building housing government offices is among 21 winners of Carnegie medals for heroism.

2012/03/21