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.

Last year, the Idaho State Tax Commission sent over 3,800 identity verification letters and stopped nearly $2 million in income tax refunds from going to thieves who used stolen identities to file ...

New Jersey has started to notify residents about their ANCHOR property tax benefits. But what’s new this year is an intense effort to protect the program from fraud by requiring some taxpayers to use ...