Advocate pushes IRS to confront identity theft

The National Taxpayer Advocate will focus in the next fiscal year on improving the Internal Revenue Service's procedures to protect victims of tax-related identity theft, the advocate said today in her report to Congress on the office's fiscal 2009 priorities. The IRS during the past year has developed an identity-theft indicator that tracks taxpayer accounts and is considering creating an agencywide office to assist identity theft victims.

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