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claim and check with your tax advisor. Taxpayers can
IRS Scams see their past 24 months of payment history, payoff
amount and balance of each tax year owed in irs.
By: Diwas Dhungel gov.
Director, Perfect Tax & Finance • IRS will never threaten to immediately bring
in local police or other law-enforcement groups to
have the taxpayer arrested for not paying.
• IRS will never demand that taxes be paid without
giving taxpayers the opportunity to question or
appeal the amount owed.
• IRS will never ever call about an unexpected
refund.
• If you ever receive a phone call from the IRS and you
are not sure it is valid, you can call the IRS customer
service line at 1-800-829-1040 to verify the number
you saw in caller ID.
• To stop IRS fake calls, report the incidence to
your tax prepare and IRS. You can report treasury
related fraudulent calls to phishing@irs.gov by
putting “IRS Phone Scam’ in subject line.
• If you owe a lot of taxes or are under a field
audit, you will generally receive many IRS notices
before the IRS will attempt to call you or come to
your door.
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) periodically warns • If there is no notice number or letter, it is likely
public about fake IRS calls. These scammers use fake that the letter is fraudulent. It is recommended
names and IRS badge numbers to identify themselves
as real. They often have your last four digits of the you call the IRS at 800-829-1040. You can give
taxpayer’s Social Security number. They sound like them the notice number or letter number that is on
the correspondence, and an IRS representative will
they are real IRS or law enforcement agencies. Many tell you whether it is legitimate.
times, they send look alike emails to victims to support • Although scammer threaten you, IRS will never
their bogus calls. They threaten victims with jail time
or with, driver’s license or other professional license send you to jail, or file criminal charges against you,
revocation. They could also call back as local law for failing to pay your taxes. Failing to pay taxes
generally is not a criminal act that will lead you to
enforcement agencies or the Department of Motor jail. Instead, it is a notice that you must pay back
Vehicles, and caller ID again to give real impression. your unpaid taxes and amend your return.
If any of you received these types of IRS impersonation
scam call, do not panic, and hang up. Here are some • In many IRS-impersonation scams, the scammer
tips to identify is they were fake calls: sends the consumer to a phony Web site that mimics
the appearance of the genuine IRS Web site, IRS.gov.
• In these fake calls, you may hear background • In general, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
noise of other calls to mimic call center. has 10 years to collect unpaid tax debt. After that,
• Always know that IRS will never call to demand
immediate payment using a specific payment method the debt is wiped clean from its books and
such as a prepaid debit card, gift card or wire transfer. the IRS writes it off. This is called the 10 Year Statute
of Limitations.
Generally, the IRS will first mail a bill to any taxpayer
who owes taxes
• Review you tax account online to validate their

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