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The Internal Revenue Service should be doing more to protect the security of tax transcript information available through its Income Verification Express Service program, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service hasn’t been pursuing cases involving hundreds of billions of dollars in income from individuals and businesses whose income has been showing up in Form 1099-K information returns, but has been otherwise unreported.

Private collection agencies that have contracted with the Internal Revenue Service to collect overdue tax debts have collected nearly $500 million since 2017, according to a new report, but that’s just a fraction of the over $30 billion owed.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration so far hasn’t uncovered any evidence that sensitive taxpayer data was accessed during cyberintrusions blamed on Russian government hackers.

The Internal Revenue Service cautioned electronic return originators about a new identity theft scheme aimed at holders of Electronic Filing Identification Numbers from fraudsters posing as IRS contractors.

The Internal Revenue Service is beefing up its controls to safeguard against improper self-employed retirement deductions, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service is rolling out new systems and expanding the number of forms that can be electronically filed by tax-exempt organizations, while also dealing with some technology glitches resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Internal Revenue Service has asked a watchdog to investigate the tax system’s security after the New York Times disclosed that its reporters had reviewed more than two decades of President Donald Trump’s tax information.

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The controls over the pseudonym program used by Internal Revenue Service employees to protect their identities could be improved, according to a recent report.