
December 22, 2025

IRS cash-intensive industry audits are expanding as federal enforcement, AI-driven audit selection, and scrutiny of cash-heavy businesses grow.

Federal agencies align customs and treasury reporting as CBP expands ACE requirements and FinCEN slashes CTR thresholds in 2025 enforcement push.

Trade tariff adjustments are increasing customs, tax, inventory valuation, and compliance pressure for U.S. importers, manufacturers, and retailers.

The TAS Act targets IRS tax administration reform with updated notices, expanded digital tools, broader appeal rights, and new penalty safeguards for taxpayers.

ITIN-to-SSN transition concerns grow as taxpayers report IRS refund delays, record inaccuracies and mismatches, and manual processing problems.

The IRS is upgrading its compliance risk models with AI, economic benchmarks, and anomaly detection to sharpen audit selection and tax enforcement.