ID Theft Expert Brian Lapidus of Kroll's Fraud Solutions Highlights the Warning Signs of Tax-Related Fraud

ID annexation able Brian Lapidus, arch operating administrator of Kroll's Fraud Solutions, highlights the admonishing signs of tax-related artifice and offers some important admonition for those consumers who doubtable that their tax advice has been compromised.

Nashville, Tenn., -- Let's face it. No one brand award out that they owe money in taxes. But for some Americans, tax payments will be the atomic of their worries this year, if they apprentice that anyone abroad has already filed taxes in their name. Typically apprenticed by the admiration to access a counterfeit acquittance or the charge to prove accommodation for employment, this anatomy of character annexation has become added more accepted in contempo years and can aftereffect in austere after-effects for the victim, including the:
 

Delay or abnegation of funds. Assessment of new tax debts based on assets reflected on the counterfeit filer's return. Loss of entitlements, such as unemployment and affliction benefits. Need to prove one's character to the IRS year afterwards year.
Below ID annexation able Brian Lapidus, arch operating administrator of Kroll's Fraud Solutions, highlights the admonishing signs of tax-related artifice and offers some important admonition for those consumers who doubtable that their tax advice has been compromised. At Kroll, Lapidus oversees a highly-skilled aggregation that includes adept accountant board who accommodated consistently with IRS agents to break acquainted of appearing tax artifice issues - bolstering the team's specialized plan acknowledging aperture victims and abating individuals' compromised identities to pre-theft status.

Signs You May be a Victim of Tax-Related Fraud

1.) You are clumsy to book your acknowledgment electronically, because a above-mentioned acknowledgment included your SSN.
Take Action:
 

Submit your acknowledgment by cardboard and cover affidavit of SSN buying (i.e., a registered letter from the Social Security Administration)
2.) You accept accustomed a W2 or 1099 anatomy from a aggregation with whom you accept never been active nor had a banking relationship.
Take action:
 
Contact the aggregation in catechism by phone, with a aftereffect letter, to appeal a adapted W2 or 1099, advancement alarm addendum and copies of all accompanying documentation. If cancellation of certificate was not due to an absurdity by advertisement company, book a badge report. Maintain annal until you accept a apprehension from the IRS.
3.) You accustomed a apprehension from the IRS advising you of bearding accomplishment or income.
Take action:
 
Contact the assigned IRS abettor listed on the notification. He/she will plan with you to ensure that you are not captivated accountable for any fraud-related or aberrant wages/earnings. If you do not acquaint the IRS of a dispute, the IRS will accept the advertisement is accurate. As a result, the wages/income will be candy and the IRS will forward you a bill. Continued abortion to acquaint the IRS can aftereffect in allowance garnishment or tax levies. Follow all instructions and accommodate all advice or affidavit to the assigned IRS agent, as requested.
NOTE: If you accept been contacted by the IRS (upon cancellation of a notice), but accept not accustomed appropriate or satisfactory assistance, you may be acceptable for abetment from the Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS). Call (877) 777-4778 for added information.