According to the Federal Trade Commission’s 2021 Data Book, the Consumer Sentinel Network received over 4.7 million consumer reports focusing on fraud, identity theft, and other consumer protection topics in 2020, an increase from the prior year. Of those, nearly 3 in 10 reports—more than any other type of complaint—were on identity theft.
It’s an issue that the IRS and its partners take seriously: Identity theft for tax purposes is so popular that it is regularly named one of the IRS’s Dirty Dozen Tax Scams.
The IRS has taken several steps to combat ID theft, including issuing Identity ...
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