Identity theft protection

The Internal Revenue Service and its partners in the public and private sectors are planning to highlight the importance of cybersecurity next week.

The Internal Revenue Service will begin accepting e-filed tax returns that contain dependents who have already been claimed on another taxpayer's return.

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The Internal Revenue Service issued a warning to tax professionals to be on guard against the identity thieves who are targeting them and their clients.

The amount of time that identity theft victims have to wait for tax refunds has increased as the Internal Revenue Service has shifted priorities, with some waiting nearly two years.

The Internal Revenue Service is making some changes in the way it sends tax transcripts for clients to tax professionals to beef up security.

The service has faced challenges in transitioning the system it uses for authenticating the identities of taxpayers and tax professionals.

The IRS offers advice on how practitioners can know when their client information is at risk.

The service and its Security Summit partners revived their summertime campaign to protect confidential client information against identity theft.

The Internal Revenue Service is cautioning taxpayers to beware of a new scam in which fraudsters are sending out cardboard envelopes from a delivery service asking for personal info.