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The Identity Protection Personal Identification Number () is a six‑digit number the IRS issues to help prevent tax‑related identity theft by verifying that a filer is the legitimate taxpayer; taxpayer...
Most taxpayers should not expect a blanket delay to 2025 tax refunds: the IRS continued to process and pay electronically filed, error-free refunds even during funding lapses, while the agency’s inves...
The internal rules that govern what a (CWA) must contain are rooted in the substantiation rules of §170(f) and the IRS guidance that implements it, and those rules—summarized in IRS guidance such as t...
’s decision to open the Identity Protection PIN () program nationwide beginning with the 2020 filing season created a widely accessible technical barrier that blocks many fraudulent e‑filed refund cla...
The principal constraint on using new enforcement resources to audit taxpayers with incomes below is an administrative directive — not a law — instructing the IRS to keep audit rates for those taxpaye...
Refundable tax credits and individual tax refunds are counted as federal outlays and therefore form part of the roughly $7.0 trillion in estimated FY2025 outlays; CBO and Treasury documents explicitly...