When small businesses get desperate for cash, the inclination to commit fraud increases. Where can they cut costs? Not with their employees, who would leave if wages were slashed or …

Welcome to the Tax Guard quarterly product update! In this edition, we take time to reflect on 2020 and the progress our Product and Engineering teams have made in 2021.

The IRS Wait is Over: Back to Reality  As a result of the pandemic, the IRS intermittently opened and closed throughout 2020, impacting their ability to maintain operations. They struggled to deal with basic business operations, such as opening the mail …

Commercial lending has certainly seen its share of ups and downs this year, but arguably none have been more impacted than government-guaranteed lenders. Read on to learn how they’re navigating this lending rollercoaster ride.

Synthetic identity fraud has always been a significant concern for commercial lenders, but the era of COVID-19 has increased those concerns considerably.   The increase in digital transactions and, for some, …

Welcome to the Tax Guard quarterly product update! Check out the Q3 highlights from our Product and Engineering Teams.

Welcome to the Tax Guard quarterly product update! Check out the Q2 highlights from our Product and Engineering Teams.

We hope this blog will help you cut through the noise and get to the facts regarding IRS changes and the Senate Stimulus Plan.

UPDATED: The US tax filing deadline has moved to July 15, 2020.

The IRS Form 8821, Tax Information Authorization, is an important tool for many lenders and their tax due diligence process. But misconceptions about Form 8821 can cost a lender a …

On July 1, 2019, The Taxpayer First Act of 2019 was signed into law, which aims to broadly redesign the Internal Revenue Service. Many lenders are potentially affected by the …

Risk management is at the core of banking, but what does the rise of big data do to the practice of credit risk management of lenders? At Tax Guard, we …