Phone Scams Remain on IRS ‘Dirty Dozen’ List of Tax Scams

March 6, 2018

Be careful out there. That’s the word from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as the tax agency reminds taxpayers about continuing aggressive phone scams. Those phone scams are “a major threat to taxpayers” and as such, continued to hold down a top spot on the IRS “Dirty Dozen” list of tax scams for the 2018 filing season.

The Dirty Dozen is compiled annually by the IRS and lists a variety of common scams taxpayers may encounter any time during the year. However, many of these schemes peak during filing season - especially scam phone calls...