Identity theft possibility- Your taxes soon to be accessed from work at home if

[T2471]

What do you think about your taxes being accessed from home? The IRS has no clue what representative are doing with your information at home. They can have someone visiting their house convicted of identity theft and could have access to your information. These systems contain your social security number, all of your dependent social security numbers, business EINs, every address you lived at, phone numbers, all assets from banking every single dollar that you have to your name from a financial institution, retirements, compensation, details about medical when doing a financial. Reps have access to the same locating systems as the FBI and it can pull up all kinds of information that you wouldn’t believe they can access. Anytime you call the IRS you’re tax account is pulled up you never know whether you’re calling into the site or a work from home. Isn’t it something that they are putting identity verification on people, but they could expose people to identity theft? Next time they tell you about verification ask them about their work at home pilot program. Do they have the ability to bypass the 4th Amendment right that their work from home reps have just to keep you safe from identity theft? They better be monitoring all up in the bathroom too. This work from home pilot program might violate the Tax payer Bill Of Rights and we all should be contacting Congress especially Oversight Committees. If some crook got a hold of your information it will take you years to clean it up https://www.irs.gov/taxpayer-bill-of-rights

The Right to Confidentiality
Taxpayers have the right to expect that any information they provide to the IRS will not be disclosed unless authorized by the taxpayer or by law. Taxpayers have the right to expect appropriate action will be taken against employees, return preparers, and others who wrongfully use or disclose taxpayer return information.

The Right to Challenge the IRS’s Position and Be Heard
Taxpayers have the right to raise objections and provide additional documentation in response to formal IRS actions or proposed actions, to expect that the IRS will consider their timely objections and documentation promptly and fairly, and to receive a response if the IRS does not agree with their position.

The Right to Privacy
Taxpayers have the right to expect that any IRS inquiry, examination, or enforcement action will comply with the law and be no more intrusive than necessary, and will respect all due process rights, including search and seizure protections and will provide, where applicable, a collection due process hearing.

[ThatGuyThere]

Ever hear of UNAX? An IRS employee who accesses or shares confidential tax payer data can be terminated and criminally charged.This is actually one of the few ways an IRS employee can lose their job rather quickly. With that being said, working from home should be allowed. It provides a quality of life boost for employees and increases morale.

[thicks]

Sounds unacceptable. I don’t have a problem if they work from home as long as they’re not accessing confidential information.

[Author]

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