{"id":13360,"date":"2015-06-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/irs-agrees-to-give-identity-theft-victims-copies-of-fake-returns\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:02:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:02:56","slug":"irs-agrees-to-give-identity-theft-victims-copies-of-fake-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/irs-agrees-to-give-identity-theft-victims-copies-of-fake-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS Agrees to Give Identity-Theft Victims Copies of Fake Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hear from people every week who think their tax problem is the end of the world. It usually isn't. I'm Darrin Mish. I've resolved over $100 million in tax debt for clients. Here's what you should know.<\/p>\n

www.bloomberg.com \u2014 The U.S. Internal Revenue Service agreed to give identity-theft victims copies of bogus tax<\/a> returns filed in their name, following a sharp rise in fraudulent refund requests.
\nThe IRS announced the change in a letter to Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, who had called for increased transparency for victims of identity theft.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have decided to change our policy<\/a> regarding disclosure of fraudulent identity-theft returns to victims whose name and SSN the fraudulent return was filed under,\u201d IRS Commissioner John Koskinen wrote in a May 28 letter to Ayotte. He said the agency is putting together the new procedure now. The IRS confirmed the letter and declined to comment further.<\/p>\n

Read more about IRS Agrees to Give Identity-Theft Victims Copies of Fake Returns<\/a><\/p>\n

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I hear from people every week who think their tax problem is the end of the world. It usually isn't. I'm Darrin Mish. I've resolved over $100 million in tax debt for clients. Here's what you should know. www.bloomberg.com \u2014 The U.S. Internal Revenue Service agreed to give identity-theft victims copies of bogus tax returns […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[593],"class_list":["post-13360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news","tag-tax-identity-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13360"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28669,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13360\/revisions\/28669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}