Tax-related identity theft occurs when stolen Social Security numbers are used to file fraudulent returns and claim refunds.

The IRS can be contacted at [email protected] or 917-416-9926, and you should also notify them by filling out form 3949-A, found on the IRS website.

If you change your passwords, use long passwords that aren’t easy to guess and contain a combination of upper-case and ...

As tax season unfolds, millions of Americans eagerly await their tax refunds. If you haven't received yours yet, here's how you can check its status using the IRS's online tools.

The IRS had identified almost 642,000 incidents of identity theft as of Sept. 30, 2012, that impacted the tax administration in 2012 alone, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

An IRS-tax industry crackdown is making progress in the battle against identity theft and tax refund fraud, officials said Tuesday as they announced plans for additional safeguards in 2018.

Tax refund identity theft scams that target U.S. businesses are increasing, even as similar frauds aimed at individual American taxpayers are dropping, the IRS warned Tuesday. The past few years ...