A trio of Democrats on Capitol Hill think that the IRS requirements for identity verification in the Direct File program “created serious access barriers” to filing taxes using the service. Sens.

The Internal Revenue Service has faced challenges in transitioning the system it uses for authenticating the identities of taxpayers and tax professionals to a system more widely used in the federal ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The coming IRS direct file pilot, which will allow taxpayers in certain states to file their taxes directly to the government, will ...

A view of the IRS building in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images) A few years ago, the Internal Revenue Service announced that it had begun using the identity credential service ID.me ...

The Internal Revenue Service is strengthening the identity verification and sign-in process for its online self-help tools after a number of high-profile data breaches. The IRS has also integrated its ...

The IRS will eventually stop using ID.me identity verification on IRS.gov accounts, the agency said on Monday. The IRS signed an $86 million contract with ID.me last year. ID.me uses facial ...

Starting this summer, taxpayers wanting to access their online accounts on IRS.gov will be required to take a selfie and verify their identity with ID.me. Existing online accounts with IRS.gov will no ...

The coming IRS direct file pilot, which will allow taxpayers in certain states to file their taxes directly to the government, will require participants to verify their identity via ID.me, according ...