IDENTITY PROTECTION PIN (IP PIN)
An Identity Protection PIN (IP PIN) is a six-digit number that prevents someone else from filing a tax return using your Social Security number. The IP PIN is known only to you and the IRS and helps verify your identity when you file your electronic or paper tax return. Learn more.
RESOURCES FOR TAX PROFESSIONALS
>Protect Your Clients Protect Yourself
Every tax professional is a potential target for highly sophisticated, well-funded and technologically adept cybercriminals around the world.
>Working Virtually: Protect tax data at home and at work with the "Security Six"
Check out these basic "Security Six" protections that everyone, especially tax professionals handling sensitive data, should use.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
> IRS Tax Security 2.0 – A "Taxes-Security-Together" Checklist
> IRS: Tax Scams and Consumer Alerts
> IRS: Security Summit IRS: Unemployment
> Fraud Federal Trade Commission: Tax Identity Theft Awareness
> Identity Theft Resource Center: Tax Identity Theft
Courtesy of our parters at StaySafeOnline.Org, The National Cybersecurity Alliance and The Internal Revenue Service
About the The National Cyber Security Alliance
The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) builds strong public/private partnerships to create and implement broad-reaching education and awareness efforts to empower users at home, work and school with the information they need to keep themselves, their organizations, their systems and their sensitive information safe and secure online and encourage a culture of cybersecurity. www.staysafeonline.org
About The Internal Revenue Service
The Internal Revenue Service, also known as the IRS, is the revenue service of the United States federal government. The government agency is a bureau of the Department of the Treasury, and is under the immediate direction of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, who is appointed to a five-year term by the President of the United States. The IRS is responsible for collecting taxes and administering the Internal Revenue Code, the main body of federal statutory tax law of the United States. The duties of the IRS include providing tax assistance to taxpayers and pursuing and resolving instances of erroneous or fraudulent tax filings. www.irs.gov
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