After 32 years of IRS work — and more than $100 million in resolved tax debt — I've seen just about every version of the problem you're dealing with. I'm Darrin Mish, a tax attorney in Tampa. Here's what you should know.
In the wake of the theft of about 100,000 taxpayers’ details, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told the Senate Finance Committee that the agency is unable to keep up with increasingly sophisticated methods employed by identity thieves. The thieves hacked the “Get Transcript” application in the IRS website, www.irs.gov. According to Koskinen, the hacking of the IRS website appeared to be the work of an international crime syndicate.
Koskinen said, “What worked yesterday, what worked a year ago may not be working anymore today, so you continually have to attack that problem.”
Read more about how the IRS struggles to stay ahead of online attacks and what Commissioner Koskinen wants the Senate to do about it.
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