Rob Emory, CPA

01/09/2026

IR-2026-02, Jan. 8, 2026 — The Internal Revenue Service announced Monday, January 26, 2026, as the opening of the nation’s 2026 filing season. This year, several new tax law provisions of the One, Big, Beautiful Bill become effective, which could impact federal taxes, credits and deductions.

02/26/2025

Former IRS chiefs warn of tax season delays

A group of former commissioners at the Internal Revenue Service is sounding the alarm about the thousands of layoffs at the agency in the midst of tax season.

02/16/2025

Just a reminder. We will be closed tomorrow. Happy President’s Day everyone.

01/10/2025

IRS to start tax season on Jan. 27

Newly expanded and improved tools will be available when tax season kicks off this month.

09/04/2023

Happy Labor Day!

09/02/2022

The agency is making progress on its backlog of unprocessed tax returns, as it's asked by the Institute to extend its recent penalty relief through the end of the year.

08/31/2022

This is good news for many of you!

The tax agency will automatically issue the refunds or credits for most of the fees by the end of September.

06/23/2022

This will make my life a little easier!

The service said that as of June 10, it had processed more than 4.5 million of the more than 4.7 million individual paper returns received in 2021.

02/11/2022

Please do!

A group led by Sen. Mike Crapo is asking the IRS to do all it can to help taxpayers this tax season.

01/14/2022

Here we go again!

The National Taxpayer Advocate's annual report to Congress sounded alarm bells as millions gear up to file their federal returns.

10/15/2021

Tax season is over! (again) Taking a few days off!