A trio of Democrats on Capitol Hill think that the IRS requirements for identity verification in the Direct File program “created serious access barriers” to filing taxes using the service. Sens.

The Internal Revenue Service has faced challenges in transitioning the system it uses for authenticating the identities of taxpayers and tax professionals to a system more widely used in the federal ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Less than a month out from Tax Day, the IRS is preparing to implement a government-operated identity verification system: Login.gov.

You can get account transcripts by creating an online account with the IRS. Tax filers first need an account with ID.me to access their online IRS account. The last thing many people want to do is ...