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Improved Procedures Are Needed to Prevent the Fraudulent Use of Third‑Party Authorization Forms to...

The Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division, should develop a program to send confirmation letters to taxpayers to confirm submissions prior to authorizing third-party access to their tax information. This confirmation letter program should be implemented until the Third-Party Authorization Tool is deployed and, after deployment, to taxpayers who continue to mail or fax authorization requests to the IRS.