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Taxpayer asks: Hello, I have a question please: If a person owes the IRS back taxes and wants to marry, is the other person affected when it comes to filing taxes jointly? Thank You. Taxgirl says: The short answer is no. Your personal federal income tax liability generally remains your own personal federal income tax liability even after you are married to another person.

Christie Brinkley vowed to repay the IRS the $500,000 she owes in back taxes.

Medical marijuana's days may be numbered. With a true double whammy, the IRS and federal prosecutors are both using weed killer. California's federal prosecutors announced an aggressive statewide effort to shut down dozens of pot dispensaries. If that's not enough, then there's the IRS.

The IRS says 1,470 millionaires paid no federal income taxes in 2009.

The Internal Revenue Service has announced that it has now passed the one billion mark for individual tax returns processed through its electronic filing (or e-filing) program.

Don't try this at home: The IRS has announced its annual list of tax scams to avoid.

A federal shutdown looming Friday would stop processing of paper income tax filings to the IRS – at the height of tax season – and throw into question how cargo will be processed at the nation’s ports of entry and whether new claims for Social Security benefits will be authorized.

Life Inc.: The Internal Revenue Service said this week that it may have as much as $1.1 billion in refunds for people who did not file a tax return in 2007.

Can the same government that condemns Wikileaks for the disclosure of confidential information also accept information from that organization for the purpose of pursuing legal action? My assumption is “yes”. After all the government has used information from convicted felons to convict others. The government could also wait and let other media outlets, like Forbes, provide the names of the presumed guilty so that they can claim the information did not come directly from Wikileaks.

IRS extends filing deadline for taxes to April 18