Taxpayer Cybersecurity – Step 5: Create a Data Theft Recovery Plan

Posted on: August 26, 2019 By: and

The Security Summit, consisting of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), state tax agencies, and private-sector tax industry officials, is encouraging tax professionals during the 2019 summer season to take some time to assess their data security policies and review critical … Continue reading →

Posted in Cyber scams, Cyber Security, Data Breach, Data Protection, Identity Theft, IRS, Personal Information

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Taxpayer Cybersecurity – Step 4: Recognize Identity Theft

Posted on: August 14, 2019 By: and

The Security Summit, consisting of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), state tax agencies, and private-sector tax industry officials, is encouraging tax professionals during the 2019 summer season to take some time to assess their data security policies and review critical … Continue reading →

Posted in Cyber Security, Data Breach, Data Protection, E-mail phishing, Identity Theft, IRS, Notification, Personal Information

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Taxpayer Cybersecurity – Step 3: Avoid E-mail Phishing Scams

Posted on: August 13, 2019 By: and

The Security Summit, consisting of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), state tax agencies, and private-sector tax industry officials, is encouraging tax professionals during the 2019 summer season to take some time to assess their data security policies and review critical … Continue reading →

Posted in Cyber scams, Cyber Security, Data Breach, E-mail phishing, Identity Theft, IRS, Malware

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Taxpayer CyberSecurity — Step 2: Create A Data Security Plan

Posted on: August 9, 2019 By: and

The Security Summit, consisting of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), state tax agencies, and private-sector tax industry officials, is encouraging tax professionals during the 2019 summer season to take some time to assess their data security policies and review critical … Continue reading →

Posted in Cyber Security, Data Protection, IRS, Personal Information, Uncategorized

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Taxpayer CyberSecurity — Step 1: Protect Your Systems!

Posted on: August 6, 2019 By: and

In March 2015, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) convened an unprecedented coalition of state tax agencies and private-sector tax industry officials to fight back against emerging criminal syndicates exploiting sensitive taxpayer information by creating the Security Summit. The Security Summit … Continue reading →

Posted in Cyber Security, Data Protection, IRS, Personal Information, Privacy

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Celebrate National Tax Security Awareness Week!

Posted on: November 26, 2017 By:

While it may be better known as “Cyber Monday”, today also marks the start of the second annual National Tax Security Awareness Week (November 27 to December 1).  The Internal Revenue Service, state tax agencies and the tax industry are … Continue reading →

Posted in Cyber Security, Identity Theft, IRS

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Identity Theft Protection Services — Federal Income Tax Treatment

Posted on: March 16, 2016 By:

For those unfortunate folks dealing with identity theft, here’s a ray of good news.  Snell & Wilmer’s tax and data privacy lawyers recently published a  Legal Alert  that explains recent announcements by the Internal Revenue Service on the subject of … Continue reading →

Posted in Data Breach, Government Regulations, Identity Theft, IRS

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