Source: IRS
Continuing an ongoing public awareness effort, the IRS launched its 2023 Dirty Dozen campaign warning against prevalent scams and schemes they’re seeing this tax season. This year’s campaign includes warnings against:
- Employee Retention Credits, following blatant attempts by promoters to con ineligible people to claim the credit. Renewing several earlier alerts, the IRS highlighted schemes from promoters who have been blasting ads on radio and the internet touting refunds involving ERCs.
- Phishing and smishing schemes, where cybercriminals try to steal a taxpayer’s information through scam emails or text messages.
- Scammers who try to sell or offer help setting up an online account on IRS.gov that puts their tax and financial information at risk of identity theft.
- Promoters pushing improper fuel tax credit claims that taxpayers aren’t qualified to receive.
- Scammers using fake charities to dupe taxpayers, especially following major disasters.
End of IRS Publication
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