It’s tax season, and that means you’re as busy as you can be. But it’s also the busy season for crafty criminals: scammers impersonating the IRS, either over the phone, by email or in person. Any of these methods can be used to steal money from people.…
For some years now we’ve heard about how the Information Technology systems inside the Internal Revenue Service need major upgrades.…
In 2015 Congress mandated the IRS use private debt collectors to bring in billions of dollars in outstanding tax debt owed by taxpayers.…
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In 2017 the IRS embarked on a familiar quest: to collect outstanding taxes from delinquent taxpayers. Some members of Congress thought private industry could succeed where the IRS had fallen short previously, and inserted language into a highway funding bill that mandated the IRS use private debt collection firms to recover the back taxes.…
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An evaluation by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) shows that the Internal Revenue Service isn’t managing to keep up with the growing number of employers who knowingly fail…
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Deep Analysis of "Get Transcript" Incident Finds 220,000 Additional BreachesYesterday, the IRS issued a press release detailing new findings related to the "Get Transcript" data breach that was…
Ineffective Income and Withholding Verification Hinder IRS in Detecting Fraudulent Returns The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) has released the results of its review of the…
In what appears to be a significant oversight, the Internal Revenue Service sent a total of $46,378,040 in refunds to "unauthorized" workers at one address in Atlanta, Ga...…
IRS employees are choosing good performance ratings over identifying potentially fraudulent tax identification number applications...…
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration performed an audit on the OIC program in an attempt to discover why there has been a 28 percent increase in the number of requests for offers in compromise. The results found ...…
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