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 ...

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 ...

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 IRS is changing course after partnering with a third-party company that uses facial recognition to verify the identities of taxpayers logging onto their IRS accounts. The agency previously ...