Tax refunds are coming in smaller this year, and the drop may be due to certain family tax credits haven’t been delivered yet. The IRS reported that the average refund amount via direct deposit ...

Tax scams are already widespread enough without ... s that they’re becoming nearly indistinguishable from legitimate communications. Taxpayers can no longer rely on gut instinct alone to spot ...

Verify IRS Communications. The IRS will “never” reach out via email, text or social media to request personal or financial information, according to LifeLock – but scammers will. If you get ...

SO I WENT IN TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT EXACTLY IS GOING ON, BUT WAS TOLD THAT I WOULD NEED TO LEAVE AND SPEAK TO SOMEONE IN THE IRS COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT. IT WAS A SIMILAR SCENE IN STOCKTON.

According to our latest report, nearly half (48%) of Americans have received fraudulent IRS communications, while 33% have received scam messages pretending to be from well-known tax preparation ...

As a result, many people (41%) are second-guessing real tax communications. In fact, more than half of people say the tax scam messages they’ve received this year are more sophisticated or ...

Nearly 1 in 4 Americans (23%) say they or someone they know has lost money to a tax scam. Close to half (48%) of people have received a fake IRS message via text, email, social media, or phone ...

IRS communications senior adviser, in a press release announcing the IRS’ annual Dirty Dozen tax scams. Here are five tax scams to watch out for, and tips to avoid them. Phishing is alive and ...