The Treasury Department on May 26 released a plan to review all existing Treasury regulations and identify those that are “obsolete, unnecessary, excessively burdensome, or ineffective.”

During the transition to its new eAccess electronic document management system, the Tax Court failed to serve a small number of petitioners with paper or electronic notices of the documents concluding their cases (such as final decisions or orders of dismissal).

The IRS Oversight Board released its annual report to Congress on May 12, describing the IRS’ performance during fiscal 2010 and its progress in meeting the goals in its strategic plan.

The IRS issued final regulations further postponing implementation of mandatory 3% withholding on payments from government entities to contractors and providing interim guidance.

The AICPA and IRS have corresponded regarding the AICPA’s concerns about the Service’s program to request the accounting software files of certain small business taxpayers under examination