WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Internal Revenue Service has opened select Taxpayer Assistance Centers for in-person help today, Saturday, May 30, offering taxpayers a rare weekend opportunity to resolve ...

A trio of Democrats on Capitol Hill think that the IRS requirements for identity verification in the Direct File program “created serious access barriers” to filing taxes using the service. Sens.

American taxpayers are now proactive in protecting their tax returns by receiving an IRS Identity Protection PIN from the agency’s improved online system, which prevents fraudulent filings before they ...

You file your tax return, expect a refund, and then nothing happens. In manycases, the delay is not random — it is the result of an automated flag thatrequires identity verification or corrected ...

The IRS proposal appears to turn what had been presented as a tightly limited identity-proofing process into a longer-term ...

ID.me, the verification service that most U.S. states turned to during the pandemic to confirm the identity of people applying for unemployment aid, attracted public scrutiny this month when it was ...

The Internal Revenue Service has awarded McLean digital identity tech company ID.me a blanket purchase agreement valued at up to $1 billion for identity verification and authentication products and ...

Documents reviewed by POLITICO show that identity verification provider ID.me could retain taxpayer biometric data for far longer than it currently does.

The IRS rarely sends cheerful mail, but few envelopes create panic faster than an identity verification notice. One minute, a taxpayer expects a refund, and the next minute, the federal government ...