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Identity thieves count on you ignoring small clues like a $4 charge or a missing bill. Spot these six quiet signs before ...

The IRS proposal appears to turn what had been presented as a tightly limited identity-proofing process into a longer-term ...

For the first time, AI-generated fraud schemes dominate the IRS's annual warning list - and taxpayers with unresolved ...

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 coming IRS direct file pilot, which will allow taxpayers in certain states to file their taxes directly to the government, will require participants to verify their identity via ID.me, according ...

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 ...

Documents reviewed by POLITICO show that identity verification provider ID.me could retain taxpayer biometric data for far longer than it currently does.