In a recent news release (IR-2024-306), the IRS warns about scams you need to be aware of, really heinous contacts where the scammers pretend to be the  IRS. But here’s one key takeaway: the IRS doesn’t use email (or text messages) as the regular communication to deliver notices of deficiency, requests for additional information, and the like. The IRS is big about the paper notice – you’ll recognize it immediately, with the official IRS seal and all.

The information that the IRS presents is good to know, you should be familiar with what they have to say.

Here is the text of the news release:

WASHINGTON – Because identity thieves target the financial data of businesses and the self-employed using new schemes, the Internal Revenue Service and the Security Summit partners today urged companies and individual taxpayers to review and update their security measures and practices to guard against the latest scams.

Keep reading this article on Financial Ducks In A Row.

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