The IRS released its annual “Dirty Dozen” list of tax scams for 2025, urging taxpayers, businesses and tax professionals to remain cautious of increasingly sophisticated schemes that threaten personal ...

IRS Encourages Taxpayers To Take Measures To Prevent Fraud The IRS is encouraging taxpayers to get an identity protection PIN (IP PIN). An IP PIN is a six-digit number that helps prevent thieves from ...

The Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation unit has embarked on a new initiative for engaging with financial institutions as it makes greater use of banking data to uncover tax and ...

WASHINGTON — A 25-year-old staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is expected to imminently gain access to the IRS’s sensitive tax database as fraud becomes a major focus ...

If you get a text claiming you're due a $1,400 stimulus check from what looks to be the IRS, don't click on any links. The text is most certainly a scam, as the federal agency doesn't send such ...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors on Thursday announced criminal charges and arrests in two separate cases alleging the theft ...

Officials with Elon Musk’s group say they want to search for fraud. Privacy law bars the IRS from disclosing tax information to other parts of the government ...

The agency improved management of the Electronic Fraud Detection System after a vendor failed to deliver an online version last year. The Internal Revenue Service significantly strengthened management ...

Nearly 2,000 whistleblower claims alleged tax violations of over $2 million. WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2009 -- A government watchdog today said the Internal Revenue Service's program to prevent tax fraud ...

Jill Martin with the Nebraska News Service compiled the following tax information from IRS.gov. The tax season began Jan. 19 and the Internal Revenue Service is working to reduce identity theft refund ...