IRS to Share Covid Credit Fraud Fixes With Congress, Werfel Says

The IRS together with Treasury will explore solutions to curb widespread fraud associated with a pandemic-era credit and share them with Congress, IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel told tax practitioners.

Speaking at a roundtable session Tuesday at the IRS Nationwide Tax Forum in Atlanta, Werfel said the agency would have expected the number of dubious employee retention credit claims to decrease as the country progressed out of the pandemic.

“Instead, we continue to see more and more questionable claims coming in following the onslaught of misleading marketing from promoters pushing businesses to apply,” he said. “To address this, the ...