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IRS closes in on industry-based fraud squad

May 4, 2018

Via: FCW
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The Internal Revenue Service is inching closer to operationalizing a public-private information sharing center to help prevent tax fraud.

The move comes as the IRS fights a multi-front battle to tamp down on identity theft in the wake of a 2015 data breach of the agency’s “Get Transcript” application, which resulted in the unauthorized access of hundreds of thousands of taxpayer accounts.

The agency put out an Request for Information May 3 seeking to gather market research about how best to manage its Identity Theft Tax Refund Fraud Information Sharing and Analysis Center.

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