Leaders from the IRS, state tax agencies and the tax industry called on tax professionals nationwide to take time to review their current security practices, enhance safeguards where necessary and take steps to protect their businesses from global cybercriminal syndicates prowling the Internet. Despite major progress by the IRS and the Security Summit partners against identity theft, evolving tactics continue to threaten the tax community and the sensitive data of taxpayers. To help combat this, the Security Summit partners created a new “Taxes-Security-Together” Checklist to serve as a starting point for tax professionals. The IRS and Summit partners will issue a series of five Tax Security 2.0 news releases highlighting “Taxes-Security-Together” Checklist action items. News releases IR-2019-143, Tax Security 2.0 – A “Taxes-Security-Together” Checklist – Step 5 IR-2019-140, Tax Security 2.0 – A “Taxes-Security-Together” Checklist – Step 4 IR-2019-136, Tax Security 2.0 – A “Taxes-Security-Together” Checklist – Step 3 IR-2019-131, Tax Security 2.0 – A "Taxes-Security-Together" Checklist – Step 2 IR-2019-127, Tax Security 2.0 – A "Taxes-Security-Together" Checklist – Step 1 IR-2019-122, Tax Security 2.0 – A "Taxes-Security-Together" Checklist
