W ith the 2025 tax filing season quickly approaching, it's the perfect time for bad actors to start targeting taxpayers ...

Even though the IRS does communicate by letter, a letter that seems to be from the IRS may not be legitimate. Scammers can send fake IRS notices by mail, and they can be challenging to authenticate.

So maybe that’s why, in a December 10 letter to President ... won by touting fake populism and pretending to care deeply for the working folk. The endgame in starving the IRS is not to make ...

Be careful when someone contacts you claiming to be from the IRS and offering to help you. It's probably a scam.

National ID Theft Awareness Week kicks off Monday and runs through Feb. 2, coinciding with the IRS officially launching tax ...

Smirnov has also pledged to pay about $675,000 in restitution to the IRS, to make up for his tax ... They submitted letters from loved ones, who lauded Smirnov as a “deeply patriotic and proud ...

In this scam, taxpayers receive a cardboard envelope from a delivery service, which includes a fake letter from the “IRS” about an unclaimed refund and asks for personal and financial ...

Smirnov’s bombshell indictment – and the subsequent public repudiation of his fake bribery claims – helped derail the ... Smirnov has also pledged to pay about $675,000 in restitution to the IRS, to ...

They conduct fake virtual or ... agencies such as the IRS, Social Security Administration, or local law enforcement. People receive threatening calls, emails, or letters claiming they owe money ...

What you need to know about the new IRS Direct File program, how to track a refund and more during the 2025 tax season.

Con artists continue to craft ways to steal your important personal information, which can be used to file fake ... and Letters" page to view correspondence sent to them from the IRS.

One category involves tax returns that are stopped during processing by IRS identity theft detection filters that are trying ...