The mortgage interest deduction is expensive not only in terms of cost but in money spent in support of it, leaving many confident in its continued existence in the tax code under most policymakers' vision for tax reform.
The IRS should stop providing online access to a key anti-fraud program through a marginally revised version of the authentication process that allowed thousands of tax records to be stolen last year, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration and other tax observers told Tax Analysts.
