IRS Tax Updates
June 17, 2015
The IRS joined with representatives of the tax software industry and state tax administrators on June 11, 2015 to announce the new collaborative effort to help protect the nation’s taxpayers from identity theft and tax fraud.
CrossLink has been part of this effort for the past three months and looks forward to being part of the continuing partnership with other tax industry companies, the IRS, and states in the months ahead to help combat the growing impact of identity theft to the federal and state tax systems.
This effort began in March 2015 with the establishment of three teams that focused on developing ways to improve tax return authentication and validation, information sharing between the industry, IRS, and states, and fraud detection and assessment of risks in order to develop strategies in preventing emerging threats.
The members of the IRS Security Summit agreed to several new initiatives in the following areas:
Taxpayer authentication
Industry and government groups identified numerous new data elements that can be included with the return to help authenticate the taxpayer and detect identity theft fraud.
Fraud detection
An agreement was made to expand the sharing of fraud leads between industry and government.
Information assessment
The groups will look at establishing a formalized Refund Fraud Information and Assessment Center to more efficiently share information between the public and private sector to help identify fraud schemes and reduce the risk to taxpayers.
Cyber-security framework
Industry agreed to align with the IRS and states under the National Institute of Standards and Technology cyber-security framework to promote the protection of the information technology infrastructure.
Taxpayer awareness and communication
A joint effort between the IRS, states, and industry to increase the effort to inform taxpayers and raise awareness of the importance of protecting taxpayers’ sensitive personal tax and financial data to help prevent identity theft and refund fraud.
To learn more about this new IRS, industry, and state collaborative effort to fight identity theft and protect taxpayers, see the following on the IRS website:
IRS Identity Theft Resources
February 19, 2020
Kiddie Tax Change and Form 8615
February 12, 2020
IRS Expands Their Identity Protection PIN (IP PIN) Program
January 23, 2020
2019 Federal Return and the Affordable Care Act
January 3, 2020
Extender and Disaster Tax Relief Provisions Included in the 2020 Consolidated Appropriations Legislation
December 27, 2019
Reminder of 2019 Federal Tax Changes
December 11, 2019
