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A controversial new program that uses facial recognition is part of a national effort to verify identities and reduce fraud.

IRS chief sees “mountains and mountains” of fraud in NFTs and cryptocurrencies as demand continues to rise going forward in 2022.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge ID.me, a facial recognition company that has been contracted by the IRS to verify taxpayers identity , uses a powerful facial recognition technique to match faces against a larger database, despite earlier claims to the contrary. According to a LinkedIn post made by CEO Blake Hall Wednesday and spotted by reporters at CyberScoop , the company does use a technique known as one-to-many face matching in which a target face is compared against a database of other known faces to find possible matches. This contradicts previous public statements made by the company, including a press release issued just days ago, where comments attributed to Blake Hall said the company used only a less powerful form of facial recognition known as one-to-one Continue reading

If you dont report crypto activity and face an IRS audit, you may be hit with interest, penalties or even criminal charges, according to tax experts.

An enormous bottleneck at the IRS is delaying 2021 tax refunds for millions of American as tax filing season gets underway.

The IRS will use a third party facial recognition company to verify online taxpayers | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Internal Revenue Service will require people who access and pay their taxes online to enroll in a third-party facial recognition company starting this summer (h/t Krebs on Security ). Even those who have already registered on IRS.gov with a username and password will have to provide a government ID, a copy of a utility bill, and a selfie to ID.me, the Virginia-based identity verification company. Youll take a video selfie with whatever webcam or mobile device youre using to sign up, which seems likely to cause problems for people with older hardware or who dont have access to one. According to the IRS , ID.me is a trusted technology provider of identity verification services. Anyone who already has an ID.me account from another Continue reading

With the IRS backlog, it''s more important than ever to file an accurate tax return and you can use transcripts to verify records, experts say.

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic took everyone, including the IRS, by surprise, and the filing deadline for federal tax payments was moved from the usual mid-April date to July 15th. In 2021, the due date was pushed back to May 17th, 2021. Right now, however, it looks like well be back to the traditional mid-April due dates. Actually, because the tax deadline cant be the same day as an official holiday, most of us have until April 18th (April 15th is Emancipation Day in DC). If you live in Maine or Massachusetts, you actually have until April 19th because of Patriots Day. Need an extension? After youve applied for that extension , you have until October 17th. However, the IRS has also made it known that the pandemic is still slowing Continue reading

Most criminal tax cases come out of civil tax audits. If an IRS auditor discovers something suspicious in a civil audit, the auditor can notify the IRSs Criminal Investigation Division. Notably, the IRS is not obligated to tell you that this criminal referral is occurring.

Starting this year, required minimum distributions will be calculated using more generous life expectancy tables from the IRS.

Rabobank: "It Is Unclear How Much Longer The Idiot Liquidity Will Flow" By Michael Every of Rabobank Yesterday’s China data’s first surprise was that retail sales were only 1.7% y/y vs. 3.8% expected in December, although at 12.5% y/y year-to-date vs. 12.7% expected, this implied some significant revisions. The second, as flagged, was that Q4 GDP came in above expectations at 1.6% q/q, 4.0% y/y, with 8.1% year-to-date. This is unlikely to capture the reality of an imploding property sector, rolling blackouts, a surge in PPI, and a slumping consumer, but the market didn’t ask any questions, as usual; and it was a nice upbeat backdrop to Xi Jinping’s virtual presentation to Davos, which stuck to the usual script - stronger international cooperation in overcoming shared global challenges including defeating COVID-19, revitalizing the economy, and addressing climate change. That was all red meat to platitude-seeking algos. Yet underlining the GDP data were not as good as appeared, the PBOC cut its benchmark rate 10bp to 2.85%, the first decrease since April 2020 , as well the 7-day reverse repo rate from 2.2% to 2.1%.

House Democrats pressured the IRS to develop a plan to address what the agency has called a significant "frustrating" backlog in tax returns that threatens to delay refunds for the 2022 filing season.

Using cryptocurrencies has federal income tax implications. Heres what you need to know at 2021 tax return time if you made crypto transactions last year.

National Taxpayer Advocate Erin M. Collins said the public could face even longer delays than it did last year.

The IRS is warning that there may be delays processing tax returns and sending refunds this year. To receive yours in a timely manner, file early.