What is a tax ID number? It's a unique nine-digit number issued by the Social Security Administration or the IRS to anyone ...

The IRS will eventually stop using ID.me identity verification on IRS.gov accounts, the agency said on Monday. The IRS signed an $86 million contract with ID.me last year. ID.me uses facial ...

The IRS announced the online tax verification system on its platform last November, but it has not yet come into full swing until the present time. The new design ...

Swindlers are manning the phones -- or firing up their robo-calling machines -- 24/7 to work the IRS scam. As I've reported in previous posts, they want to steal your personal information by ...

The Internal Revenue Service is reconsidering alternatives to ID.me, the controversial identity-checking system already used by states and other federal agencies, after public pushback at the notion ...

DAYTON — Update@4:55 p.m.: The IRS begins accepting tax returns today, and while tax identity theft will be an ongoing issue this tax filing season, new measures from the IRS appear to be working. Tax ...

US Senator Bob Menendez and other lawmakers this week demanded the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and ID.me contact taxpayers who have uploaded biometric information to the platform and inform them of ...

Hard to imagine anyone just ignoring an IRS letter that flags a potential trouble spot involving fraud or ID theft. Or taxpayers not making a move to prove they are who they say they are to get their ...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced on Monday afternoon that it will no longer be using ID.me facial recognition software, adding in a statement that it will "transition away from using a ...

(NEXSTAR) – A new tax season is nearly here, and with it an opportunity for identity thieves to take advantage of taxpayers. On Wednesday, Erin M. Collins, the IRS national taxpayer advocate, issued a ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Pat Pekarek and her husband, Roger, discovered someone filed taxes using Roger's Social Security number last year, after the IRS rejected their e-filed joint return. The Pekareks, ...