How to obtain a transcript of your past tax information Taxpayers who need their past tax return information can obtain it from the IRS. Here are nine things to know if you need copies of your federal ...

The tax season already has its share of grumbling. Consumers remain worried about identity theft. The IRS says its phone lines will have more staffing but will still be so busy that people should go ...

About 685,000 taxpayers will be getting letters from the Internal Revenue Service this week warning that hackers may have stolen their tax information. After a nine-month investigation, the IRS ...

The last thing many people want to do is take yet another extra step when it comes to doing their taxes. But the option to create an online account with the IRS could well be worth considering, ...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) disclosed today that identity thieves abused a feature on the agency’s Web site to pull sensitive data on more than 330,000 potential victims as part of a scheme to ...

The Internal Revenue Service has re-enabled a service on its Web site that allows taxpayers to get a copy of their previous year’s tax transcript. The renewed effort to beef up taxpayer authentication ...

The Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday it plans to end faxing of tax transcripts in June, as well as stop third-party mailing of tax returns and transcripts in July, in an effort to curb identity ...

The breach of the IRS’s Get Transcript system in May was much larger than first reported, the IRS admitted on Monday. An additional 220,000 taxpayers had their tax return data stolen from the site, ...

The Internal Revenue Service today warned the public of a tax transcript scheme via a surge of fraudulent emails impersonating the IRS. The emails offer tax transcripts, or the summary of a tax return ...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is warning about a new “tax transcript” scam. In the scam, taxpayers are tricked into opening emails that look like they are from the IRS—but they potentially carry ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the business of cybersecurity. The IRS has filed an amended statement on the 'Get Transcript' hack -- which reports ...