Taxpayers: Protect Yourself From Identity Theft
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Identity theft has become a huge problem for the IRS. Last year alone, there were nearly 650,000 cases of Identity Theft reported to the IRS. Some believe the skyrocketing amount of cases are a direct result that the IRS now requires all tax returns to be filed electronically. The IRS has implemented “digital safeguards” this year to intercept returns which they deem have a high probability of identity theft, and have deployed a task force of 3,000...