Viral claims of IRS stimulus checks in October 2025 are false; no official announcements exist, and such posts may be scams. Claims have gone viral on social media saying that the Internal Revenue ...

AnAs the tax season ramps up in 2025, millions of Americans are eagerly awaiting their federal tax refunds. Knowing the IRS refund schedule in 2025 can help you plan ahead. But that doesn’t answer the ...

One tax scam encourages people to create fake W-2 forms. Fake emails impersonate the IRS, state tax agencies, and software companies. Fraud has no season, but scammers know that the days leading up to ...

You can get account transcripts by creating an online account with the IRS. Tax filers first need an account with ID.me to access their online IRS account. The last thing many people want to do is ...

An estimated 1 million Americans will be getting a financial boost from the IRS for previously unpaid stimulus checks sent out during the coronavirus pandemic, officially known as Economic Impact ...

The Internal Revenue Service building is seen late in the evening on May 18, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images) The IRS is making progress in moving its use of Login.gov ...

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A watchdog report reveals what led the IRS to scrap plans to use the government-backed identity service during the 2023 tax season. IRS GSA Identity The IRS was in hot water back in early 2022 when ...

During the past couple of tax seasons, it was notoriously hard to reach an actual human at the Internal Revenue Service. Nearly everyone who tried to reach the agency over the phone ran into some sort ...

A view of the IRS headquarters. (Photo by Karen Bleier/AFP via Getty Images) The Internal Revenue Service is working to expand its use of Login.gov as an authentication option for U.S. taxpayers. In a ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Less than a month out from Tax Day, the IRS is preparing to implement a government-operated identity verification system: Login.gov.

Plans to gather biometric data have been abandoned, but verification will still be done by the controversial contractor ID.me Plans to gather biometric data have been abandoned, but verification will ...