Internal Revenue Service

"Some New Jersey taxpayers may be getting a larger child tax credit under a proposal passed in the House of Representatives last week.

The credit itself is continuing in 2022, but will only come back to families once they file taxes at the beginning of 2023; the same goes for the current tax season and the other half of last year's credit that wasn't paid out monthly.

Americo Costa admitted hiding more than $400,000 in personal income from the IRS in his 2012 return. Investigators allege that he omitted hundreds of thousands more in 2010 and 2011.

A Toms River accountant, who conned clients out of their tax refunds for several years, is handed a prison term of three years and a month.

As federal tax refunds land in mailboxes, phone and digital scammers begin working in tandem to separate you from your check...the rest of your money...and the data that can invade your savings, credit and debit accounts.

An ex-letter carrier from Willingboro faces up to 30 years in prison for palming mailed federal income tax refund checks worth nearly $450,000 in 2014.

The last quarter of 2015 has arrived. Three months from now, after the end-of-year holidays, you'll be digging out receipts, tax bills and invoices that will shape your federal tax return. If you're living paycheck-to-paycheck and you need help, it can be expensive. But it need not be.

This used to die down after the April filing deadline, but it's getting a second, aggressive wind.

The Somers Point couple who own the iconic Manco & Manco pizzeria chain have an October 8 sentencing date for skipping federal tax payments, structuring cash to avoid reporting requirements and lying to investigators of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Thieves used an online service provided by the IRS to gain access to information from more than 100,000 taxpayers, the agency said Tuesday.