Tax pros who experience data theft can help clients by urging them to get an IP PIN quickly. Even if a thief already filed a fraudulent return, an IP PIN would still offer protections for later ...

Taxpayers and tax professionals should use this IP PIN number for 2015 tax returns when the filing season opens on January 19, 2016.

The IRS warned that identity protection personal identification number (IP PIN) notices it has recently sent to victims of identity theft refer to the wrong tax year.

The IP PIN, a six-digit number assigned by the IRS to taxpayers who've been victims of fraudulently filed returns, was supposed to be the IRS' strongest defense against ID theft.

“For taxpayers retrieving a lost IP PIN, the IRS emphasizes it has put strengthened processes and filters in place for this tax season to review these tax returns,” the statement continued.

The Internal Revenue Service is expanding its Identity Protection PIN opt-in program nationwide starting in January.

Beginning in January 2021, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will expand the voluntary Identity Protection PIN (IP PIN).

The IRS announced that it would begin allowing all individual taxpayers to opt in to receive an identity protection personal identification number (IP PIN), beginning in mid-January 2021.

Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson says an Identity Protection PIN is how the IRS is trying to decrease the number of scammers in the millions that have committed tax fraud.

The Internal Revenue Service failed to deactivate its Identity Protection Personal Identification Number program after a data breach in May 2015 for nearly a year, despite repeated recommendations ...

“For taxpayers retrieving a lost IP PIN, the IRS emphasizes it has put strengthened processes and filters in place for this tax season to review these tax returns,” the statement continued.