A view of the IRS building in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images) A few years ago, the Internal Revenue Service announced that it had begun using the identity credential service ID.me ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The coming IRS direct file pilot, which will allow taxpayers in certain states to file their taxes directly to the government, will ...

A trio of Democrats on Capitol Hill think that the IRS requirements for identity verification in the Direct File program “created serious access barriers” to filing taxes using the service. Sens.

Thousands of taxpayers in metro Detroit and elsewhere are dealing with the ugly fallout from some truly awful tax advice during the past tax season. Tax refunds remain in limbo. IRS letters are piling ...

The IRS was requiring taxpayers to submit their selfies if they wanted to access parts of its website. Susan Walsh AP Update: On Feb. 7, the IRS said it is moving away from using a facial recognition ...

The Internal Revenue Service has faced challenges in transitioning the system it uses for authenticating the identities of taxpayers and tax professionals to a system more widely used in the federal ...

Taxpayers who are victims of tax-related identity theft wait an average of 19 months for the IRS to process their returns and send their refunds. A page from the Internal Revenue Service website is ...

As tax season gets underway, the Federal Trade Commission is issuing a new warning about evolving identity theft scams, urging taxpayers to stay alert. It’s part of an education campaign for Identity ...

The coming IRS direct file pilot, which will allow taxpayers in certain states to file their taxes directly to the government, will require participants to verify their identity via ID.me, according ...