As the 2025 tax season approaches, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and its Security Summit partners are emphasizing the importance of enrolling in the Identity Protection Personal Identification ...

Filing an income tax return is few people’s idea of fun — but it’s worse when you can’t file the return because somebody using your identity already did. That increasingly common type of fraud can be ...

On 10/23/24, the IRS released Notice IR-2024-278 to encourage all taxpayers to sign up for an IRS IP PIN (identity protection personal identification number) to safeguard their identity and help ...

The IRS will accept certain e-filed returns that claim dependents who have already been claimed on another taxpayer’s return, a move that benefits filers who claim the earned income and child tax ...

(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 ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS)– Whether you pay an expert to file or file yourself, tax season is here and so are the scammers who try to take advantage of you. The Better Business Bureau in West Michigan says ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) – A new tax season is nearly here, ...