Taxpayers can use “Where’s My Refund?”, an online tool, to start checking on the status of their return within 24 hours after IRS has received an e-filed return or four weeks after receipt of a mailed paper return. The IRS offers Free File Software, but it’s only available to those whose annual income is below $62,000. It seems so simple that even a Congressman or Senator could understand it that if employers were required to file their W-2s directly with the IRS and the IRS matched the W-2s filed by employers with those filed by taxpayers before sending out refunds, income tax identity theft would be dramatically reduced. I have plenty of time before tax day.
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The scammers pose as the IRS and phish for information from tax preparers regarding their accounts and their client’s accounts.
The IRS urges all taxpayers to make sure they have all their year-end statements before they file their return.
The RRP, which has been in development since 2009, is meant to eventually replace the Electronic Fraud Defection System, which the IRS uses to catch electronic identity theft returns.
Tax season is nearly here, and with it comes all the usual issues of paperwork and confusion.
With new changes in technology, the IRS is increasingly concerned about tax-filing-related identity theft. “We expect the level of service on the phone will be better than previous year”, he said.
While the IRS has announced several measures the agency says will prevent tax fraud, filing early is one good way to prevent others from trying to file a return in your name.
The Affordable Care Act requires that a taxpayer and each family member has qualifying health coverage for each month of the year, qualifies for an exemption or makes an payment.
“IRS.gov is the best place for taxpayers to go for information about filing their income tax returns this year”, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said.
The TIGTA found that programming and oversight errors led to more than 5,500 direct deposits not being converted to paper refund checks. The IRS already has a list of them, but these are the two newest added to the list. But the other 15 percent lost money – close to $1 million, according to the BBB.
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The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) examined the system as part of its efforts to review the IRS’s identity-theft detection efforts. Early applicants often get more money. However, Washington, D.C., will celebrate Emancipation Day on that Friday, which pushes the deadline to the following Monday, April 18, for most of the nation. An identity thief used one of Garrett’s old tax return forms to fill out a new one and file it in Garrett’s name.
