After a year of delays, errors, staff shortages and all-around misery, the IRS wants to make it as easy as possible for taxpayers to manage their records and prepare their tax returns as filing season ...

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 ...

The Internal Revenue Service today said that selfies collected from taxpayers will be deleted and that it has deployed a new verification option as an alternative to its controversial facial ...

If information is power, then many taxpayers are powerless. Millions of people have filed federal returns that are stuck in a massive backlog, which is holding up refunds and resulted in the automatic ...

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You’ll soon have to prove your identity to a Virginia-based security company called ID.me in order to file a return, check tax records, or make payments on the ...

After the publication of this story, on Feb. 7, the IRS announced it will “transition away” from and eventually no longer use “a third-party service for facial recognition” to authenticate new online ...

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 ...