The Internal Revenue Service has agreed to change its policy on identity theft and provide victims with copies of the fraudulent tax returns that have been filed under their names by scammers.

Ohio’s new municipal income tax law is in place and ready to make life easier for taxpayers starting next year, but court decisions continue to make an impact on the law. A Society member with connections to two of those cases discusses them with us in the latest episode of OSCPA Spotlight.

On Friday, May 29, Amazon announced it was building three data centers in central Ohio.

Ohio cities could see fallout from a U.S. Supreme Court decision last week rejecting the way Maryland double-taxes income earned outside the state.

About 11,000 businesses and other employers insured by the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation (BWC) could lose their share of the statewide $1.2 billion premium credit in the pending switch to prospective billing if they don't bring their accounts current by July 1.

The number of taxpayer phone calls answered by the IRS dropped significantly during this tax season and call wait times were up, according to an interim report issued by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA). TIGTA found that the IRS’s level of service (defined as the number of calls in the IRS’s toll-free assistance queue that are answered) dropped to 38.5%, compared with 74.7% last tax season.