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Talk with a Tax Attorney Talk with a Tax AttorneyThe IRS previously offered an online service called IRS Get Transcript Online where taxpayers could obtain their IRS transcripts of account. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration recently provided updated numbers regarding the victims of identity theft using…
June 27, 2016
We previously reported that the IRS has begun initiating some audits by telephone depending on the state in which you live. Previously, the IRS only contacted taxpayers for purpose of an audit by mail and not by telephone. This has…
May 24, 2016
Identity theft is now rampant in the United States and around the world. Any entity that holds your private information including banks, hospitals and even the IRS are potential targets of identity thieves. If you are a regular reader of…
May 20, 2016
According to the IRS, identity theft and tax refund fraud continue to challenge the Internal Revenue Service because criminals have become increasingly sophisticated. Using the “dark web”, criminals buy Social Security numbers and personal identification information on a huge scale….
April 25, 2016
Identity Protection PINS, an online tool created by the IRS that was meant to help protect taxpayers who previously have been victims of tax refund fraud, has been suspended by the federal government after it was learned that the tool…
March 14, 2016
The IRS has identified a total of 334,000 taxpayers who are victims of identity theft off of their own IRS.gov website. During the most recent tax filing season, the IRS previously learned of identity theft by hackers that used taxpayer…
August 24, 2015
Nine individuals in Alabama and Georgia recently pled guilty to identity theft in connection with the filing of 7,000 false tax returns containing fraudulent refund claims in the amount of $20 million. These individuals worked together to steal the identities…
June 16, 2015
The US Department of Justice recently announces indictments against nine individuals for filing false individual income tax returns with the IRS. In one instance, a defendant filed at least 208 false individual tax returns and claimed more than $1 million…
December 28, 2014
Identity theft has become a growing problem, especially as it relates to the filing of false tax returns. It’s bad enough when your confidential data is stolen by the loss of your purse or wallet or a data breach. However,…
July 16, 2014
The steady drumbeat of bad news about the IRS continues. An IRS employee recently used an unencrypted thumb drive containing the names, Social Security numbers and addresses of IRS employees, former employees and contracted employees in an unsecured home network,…
April 03, 2014
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