Data theft information for tax professionals

Steps for tax professionals who experience a loss of taxpayer data.
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Identity theft information for tax professionals

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.
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Identity theft information for businesses

Know the signs of identity theft. Protect your business and prevent data loss or report identity theft. Find out how the IRS helps you.
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Form W-2/SSN Data theft: Information for businesses and payroll service providers

Report loss or attempted theft of W-2 and social security number data to the IRS immediately. Help protect employee information from tax-related identity theft.
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Tax professionals should review data safeguards

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.
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Payroll professionals tax center information for payroll professionals and their clients

Information for payroll professionals and their clients. This page includes links to information on employment taxes, worker classification, electronic filing, employment tax related forms and publications, news and events, and more.
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Here’s who tax pros should contact if their business suffers a data theft or loss

Tax Tip 2022-150, September 29, 2022 — Tax professionals are big targets of skilled cybercriminals scamming to get access to sensitive client information.
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IRS Tax Pro Account: Another line of defense against data theft

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.
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Tax professionals must act fast after discovering a data breach

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.
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Security Summit partners conclude special campaign with reminders to protect tax professionals from identity theft, security threats

IR-2024-224, Aug. 27, 2024 — Concluding a special summer awareness campaign, the Internal Revenue Service and the Security Summit today urged tax professionals to maintain strong safety measures to protect themselves and their taxpayer clients against evolving data security threats.
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