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IRS warns of telephone tax scams
Filing season brings fraud
W IRS Taxpayer Services Heal
In this March 22, 2013 file photo, the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington. Got a question for the IRS on your taxes? Online may end up being the only answer. The IRS may soon dramatically scale back telephone and face-to-face service as part of a future plan that would focus more on online accounts for the 150 million individual taxpayers and 11 million businesses seeking help and information, the agencys official watchdog warned. - photo by Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department has a message for taxpayers getting calls from the IRS demanding immediate payment: Hang up. Those aggressive, threatening calls are coming from phone scammers. And they are successful, too, costing more than 5,000 victims more than $26.5 million since October 2013.
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