{"id":16066,"date":"2016-04-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/10-tips-for-preventing-tax-related-identity-theft\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:14:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:14:36","slug":"10-tips-for-preventing-tax-related-identity-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/10-tips-for-preventing-tax-related-identity-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Tips for Preventing Tax-Related Identity Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stop losing sleep over your tax situation. I&#039;m Darrin Mish \u2014 a tax attorney in Tampa who&#039;s spent 32 years handling exactly this kind of problem. Here&#039;s what you need to know.<\/p>\n<p>We know that tax season is a stressful time for most filers. New tax rules, piles of paperwork and deadlines easily overwhelm people.<a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/tag\/tax-identity-theft\/\"> For several years now as public awareness about tax-related identity theft has grown, fear about the possibility of accidentally becoming a victim has added to the annual stress.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/category\/irs-help\/\">Click here to read or watch more IRS Help resources.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are worried that you might become a victim of tax-related identity theft, you have a legitimate reason for concern. Plenty of criminals use the valuable personal profile and financial data that is shared at tax time to file for fraudulent refunds, take out a credit card and personal loans and create false identities. These thieves access this data using a wide range of cunning techniques that are common to identity theft as a whole, including offline paper, electronic and online methods.<\/p>\n<p>We did not design the below infographic to increase your stress. Instead, we want these 10 security tips <a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/category\/irs-help\/\">to reduce it and related fear<\/a>. Thieves know that it can take a while for the IRS and other organizations to catch up with filing errors and use this knowledge to their advantage. We&#8217;ve provided you with relatively simple methods for protecting your identity and finances this tax season.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16067\" src=\"http:\/\/getirshelp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/infographic-108-1.jpg\" alt=\"infographic-108\" width=\"800\" height=\"2302\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Share this Image On Your Site<\/h3>\n<p><textarea style=\"width: 540px; height: 100px;\">&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please include attribution to http:\/\/getirshelp.com\/ with this graphic.&lt;\/strong&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#8217;http:\/\/getirshelp.com\/10-tips-for-preventing-tax-related-identity-theft\/&#8217;&gt;&lt;img src=&#8217;http:\/\/getirshelp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/infographic-108-1.jpg&#8217; alt=&#8221; width=&#8217;800&#8242; border=&#8217;0&#8242; \/&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;p&gt;<\/textarea><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop losing sleep over your tax situation. I&#039;m Darrin Mish \u2014 a tax attorney in Tampa who&#039;s spent 32 years handling exactly this kind of problem. Here&#039;s what you need to know. We know that tax season is a stressful time for most filers. New tax rules, piles of paperwork and deadlines easily overwhelm people. 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