Bloomberg News, IRS Sees Uptick in Complaints on AI Use Among Tax Professionals:

More tax professionals are getting referred to the IRS for questionable conduct related to artificial intelligence use, an agency official said.

“It’s starting to tick up and that’s precipitating the need for us to feel that we should provide some kind of guidance,” Thomas Curtin, director of the Office of Professional Responsibility at the IRS, said Monday at a tax conference. Fewer than five cases out of roughly 200 are AI-related, he told Bloomberg Tax after his presentation at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants event.

The Office of Professional Responsibility, which is tasked with overseeing tax practitioner conduct and discipline, in June released an alert with guidance applying Circular 230 to AI use. Curtin said the office, which is short-staffed with 15 workers, will provide additional guidance in the next couple of months.

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