American Taxpayers Urged for Vigilance about Tax-related Scams

Ever-since tax scams are widely spreading with fresh variations, the government tax-collecting agency of USA the Internal Revenue Service has cautioned taxpayers for keeping full vigil as well as safeguard themselves from scammers' deceitful tactics that keep evolving for duping the public, published thevwindepentent.com dated August 11, 2015.

The scams that may happen through letters or electronic mails having genuine looking letterhead, alternatively over telephone attempt at so tricking taxpayers that they would unwittingly give away personal financial details else get so scared that they would pay in the name of a bogus tax, which actually goes to the scammer.

TIGTA (Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration) is recipient of complaints from approximately 600,000 entities starting October 2013. The administration also knows about over 4,000 victims who've together informed of $20m-and-more of financial losses caused from tax scams.

John Koskinen IRS Commissioner states that the agency keeps on noticing the kind of forceful tax scams nationwide. Since the scammers particularly practice spurious activities and fool the general public, the IRS advises all citizens paying taxes for being more careful as also thinking twice prior to replying to dubious letters, e-mails or phone calls.

Taxpayers are reminded that IRS' authorized site reads as IRS.gov. Any other site name ending in .org, .net, .com alternatively other suffixes but .gov, and asserting it's the IRS should be wholly ignored.

IRS in its warning also states that one fresh variation is ongoing wherein the scammers change the number and name reflecting on the potential victim's phone caller ID that look like they're of IRS (else some other organization, in particular, the Department of Motor Vehicles).

The tax agency clarifies that it won't ever contact a taxpayer over phone as also ask to make a payment immediately. The agency allows a taxpayer to appeal. Any phone-call to a taxpayer about an immediate payment must be regarded as one fraud while be informed on 800-366-4484. Scams can also be reported at tigta.gov.

Earlier, scammers had attacked non-native English speaking individuals, freshly-come immigrants as well as seniors. But, now they are attacking practically anybody, IRS states after its new assessment.

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