Estate tax transcripts can now be accessed online through the IRS website. “The ability to access those transcripts online is a significant milestone in the Internal Revenue Service’s effort to reduce ...

The last thing many people want to do is take yet another extra step when it comes to doing their taxes. But the option to create an online account with the IRS could well be worth considering, ...

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The Internal Revenue Service has re-enabled a service on its Web site that allows taxpayers to get a copy of their previous year’s tax transcript. The renewed effort to beef up taxpayer authentication ...

The Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday it plans to end faxing of tax transcripts in June, as well as stop third-party mailing of tax returns and transcripts in July, in an effort to curb identity ...

The Internal Revenue Service said Friday it intends to start “masking” sensitive information on business tax transcripts, beginning Dec. 13, to safeguard taxpayers against the threat of identity theft ...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) disclosed today that identity thieves abused a feature on the agency’s Web site to pull sensitive data on more than 330,000 potential victims as part of a scheme to ...