TAP 04-042

Identity Theft, IRS Procedures

Statement of Issue:

Identity theft has proliferated exponentially, affecting individuals, private industries, and governments at all levels, and growing into a Service-wide problem for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and taxpayers. The cost in dollars and time is monumental. Pamara Blount and Christopher Lee, the NTA’s representatives on the IRS task force on identity theft, indicated that TAP members' input would be beneficial to the development of an IRS identity theft policy.

Proposal:

The Committee recommended that the NTA representatives on this the IRS task force on identity theft request input from TAP members in the development of the identity theft policies to be recommended to the IRS and for Area 5 to serve as the point of contact for TAP members.