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12/02/2024
IRS, Security Summit Partners Announce 9th Annual National Tax Security Awareness Week
The security awareness week starts today
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), working with the Security Summit partners, recently announced a special awareness week focusing on taxpayers and tax professionals to protect sensitive financial information from identity thieves and tax scams as the holidays and the 2025 tax season approach.
The 9th annual National Tax Security Awareness Week takes place this year from Dec. 2–6 by the members of the Security Summit, a coalition of the IRS, state tax administrators, tax software companies, the tax professional community and others in the larger tax community. The group formed in 2015 to combat tax-related identity theft through a public-private sector partnership that strengthened internal protections and raised awareness about security threats.
With the holiday shopping season underway and tax season quickly approaching, the Security Summit partners urge taxpayers and tax professionals to take extra steps to protect their financial and tax information during this critical period. During the holiday season, people face the heightened risk of identity theft as criminals ramp up efforts to trick people into sharing sensitive personal information including through email, text message and social media scams and schemes. Identity thieves might use this information to try filing false tax returns and stealing refunds.
Please select this link to read the complete press release from the IRS.
