This tax-filing season, the alternative tax is more potent.

Rapid Refund was in operation in virtually all of Block's American offices in the 1990 tax-filing season.

The $150 billion gap figure was disclosed today by Commissioner Richardson at a briefing to begin the new tax-filing season.

House Republican leaders brought forward tonight a package of tax-law changes, the Taxpayer Protection and I.R.S. Accountability Act, timed for the tax-filing season.

And in delving into electronic commerce, the company suffered costly, unexpected hitches in the heart of the 2000 tax-filing season.

As the new tax-filing season begins, the Internal Revenue Service has been criticized by the General Accounting Office for last year's performance, being cited for delayed refunds and unanswered telephone calls.

The one-story building he is in is informally known as the Pipeline, a paper-processing factory that sprawls over seven acres and employs 2,500 clerks year-round and twice that many during tax-filing season.

Until this tax-filing season, deducting interest on home mortgages, car loans, margin accounts and business loans used to be a straightforward affair with hardly any limitations.

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But she said she would remain in the post long enough to insure that the I.R.S. had a functioning chief executive during the traditional tax-filing season, which runs through mid-April.