Search Results

Tax professionals should know the signs of tax-related identity theft. Find out what your responsibilities are, how to protect yourself and your clients, and how to report identity theft or data loss. Learn how the IRS helps you.

Tax Tip 2021-184, December 13, 2021 — With the tax filing season around the corner, the IRS and its Security Summit partners remind tax pros to review their security measures. The Taxes-Security-Together Checklist can help tax professionals identify the basic steps they should take to safeguard their clients and their business.

Tax Tip 2022-150, September 29, 2022 — Tax professionals are big targets of skilled cybercriminals scamming to get access to sensitive client information.

November 27, 2023 — The IRS and the Security Summit partners remind you that another way to help protect sensitive information from identity thieves is with secure online tools such as Tax Pro Account.

Tax Tip 2023-106, Aug. 30, 2023 — Anyone can be a target of cybercriminals and scammers. Unfortunately, tax professionals can seem like the big fish in a sea of potential targets because of how much financial data they use to conduct their business.

IR-2022-202, November 18, 2022 — The Internal Revenue Service, along with state tax agencies and the nation's tax industry, today announced a special week focusing attention on empowering taxpayers to protect sensitive financial information against identity thieves as the holidays and the 2023 tax season get closer.

Tax Tip 2025-30, May 8, 2025 — Scammers work hard during tax season to try to steal money, personal information and all year long. Taxpayers and tax professionals should remain alert and aware of these common scams to avoid losing money, personal information or client data.

IR-2022-147, August 9, 2022 — The Security Summit partners today unveiled a special new sample security plan designed to help tax professionals, especially those with smaller practices, protect their data and information.

Tax Tip 2024-74, Sept. 4, 2024 — The IRS and the Security Summit partners continue to see identity thieves targeting tax professionals in hopes of gaining valuable client tax information

IR-2022-144, August 2, 2022 — With identity thieves continuing to target the tax community, Internal Revenue Service Security Summit partners today urged tax professionals to learn the signs of data theft so they can react quickly to protect clients.