Evolving Tax Reporting Prompts Continuous IRS Training

Examiners on the IRS’s Large Business & International division are continuously trained on how new regulations impact the way taxpayers report items on evolving tax forms.

The training comes as the agency continues to release proposed and final regulations for both federal and international provisions of the 2017 tax law.

• “New regulations are still being promulgated, and that may necessitate additional changes to the forms and so training is ongoing,” John Hinding, LB&I’s director of cross-border activities, said Wednesday on a Tax Executives Institute webcast.
• The IRS is continuing a combination of tax code learning and hands-on examination training ...