The Internal Revenue Service has faced challenges in transitioning the system it uses for authenticating the identities of taxpayers and tax professionals to a system more widely used in the federal ...

A trio of Democrats on Capitol Hill think that the IRS requirements for identity verification in the Direct File program “created serious access barriers” to filing taxes using the service. Sens.

Despite the partial government shutdown, the Internal Revenue Service has reopened the Income Verification Express Service used by mortgage lenders to verify borrowers’ income, relying on user fees to ...

WASHINGTON — The IRS has taken corrective actions to speed up its income verification system, avoiding a possibly crippling slowdown for the mortgage industry. But issues related to recent changes ...

The coming IRS direct file pilot, which will allow taxpayers in certain states to file their taxes directly to the government, will require participants to verify their identity via ID.me, according ...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is ramping up efforts to thwart identity theft. As part of those efforts, IRS is reminding taxpayers who receive requests from the IRS to verify their identities ...

Plans to gather biometric data have been abandoned, but verification will still be done by the controversial contractor ID.me Plans to gather biometric data have been abandoned, but verification will ...

American taxpayers will soon be required to sign up with an identity verification company to access their Internal Revenue Service (IRS) accounts online. Currently ...