The Internal Revenue Service has faced challenges in transitioning the system it uses for authenticating the identities of taxpayers and tax professionals to a system more widely used in the federal ...

The IRS headquarters building in Washington, D.C. A group of lawmakers has urged the IRS to loosen the identity verification requirements to access the new Direct File system by dropping the mandate ...

Hard to imagine anyone just ignoring an IRS letter that flags a potential trouble spot involving fraud or ID theft. Or taxpayers not making a move to prove they are who they say they are to get their ...

The IRS announced earlier this month that the agency will transition away from the controversial image-based verification system known as ID.me. Starting March 1, verification company ID.me said it ...