Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert W. Wood is a tax lawyer focusing on taxes and litigation. Unfortunately, returns may be mislaid, lost or destroyed. There ...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced that the "Get Transcript" tool is back online and it has a more rigorous e-authentication process. The process, according to IRS, will significantly ...

Privacy Concerns Force Tool to Remain Offline; Students, Parents and Borrowers Should Use Other Options to Provide Financial Data on Applications To protect sensitive ...

About 685,000 taxpayers will be getting letters from the Internal Revenue Service this week warning that hackers may have stolen their tax information. After a nine-month investigation, the IRS ...

The IRS announced on Friday that it is taking a step to fight identity theft for business taxpayers by masking sensitive identifying data on business tax transcripts (IR-2020-254). The rules will ...

The tax season already has its share of grumbling. Consumers remain worried about identity theft. The IRS says its phone lines will have more staffing but will still be so busy that people should go ...

WASHINGTON — You probably heard about the security breach the IRS disclosed last week that allowed hackers to obtain detailed tax return information on 104,000 taxpayers. But you might not have ...

It's tax time, you're digging through your records... and your preparer or tax software asks about tax payments you've already made. Um, was I supposed to track those? Lots of small business owners ...

A massive data breach at the IRS was much bigger than was first realized. The agency now says more than 700,000 social security numbers and other sensitive information may have been stolen. Hackers ...

The Internal Revenue Service today warned the public of a tax transcript scheme via a surge of fraudulent emails impersonating the IRS. The emails offer tax transcripts, or the summary of a tax return ...