The IRS was in hot water back in early 2022 when advocacy groups and lawmakers called out the tax agency for incorporating facial recognition technology into a customer account feature. One possible ...

The IRS advises creating an Individual Online Account for security and managing tax information before the April 15 deadline.

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Less than a month out from Tax Day, the IRS is preparing to implement a government-operated identity verification system: Login.gov.

The IRS is urging taxpayers to establish online accounts as a proactive measure against identity theft and fraud. By taking ...

A view of the IRS headquarters. (Photo by Karen Bleier/AFP via Getty Images) The Internal Revenue Service is working to expand its use of Login.gov as an authentication option for U.S. taxpayers. In a ...

The decision comes after concerns about implementing the sign-on service during tax season. The IRS and General Services Administration are delaying the deployment of the government-operated sign-on ...

The coming IRS direct file pilot, which will allow taxpayers in certain states to file their taxes directly to the government, will require participants to verify their identity via ID.me, according ...

The Internal Revenue Service has faced challenges in transitioning the system it uses for authenticating the identities of taxpayers and tax professionals to a system more widely used in the federal ...

A trio of Democrats on Capitol Hill think that the IRS requirements for identity verification in the Direct File program “created serious access barriers” to filing taxes using the service. Sens.