FILE - A sign for the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, on May 4, 2021. The IRS says it expects to collect hundreds of billions of dollars more in overdue and unpaid taxes than ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS failed to do background checks on some private contractors who handled confidential taxpayer information, exposing more than a million taxpayers to an increased risk of fraud ...

A federal court’s recent decision demonstrates the value in reviewing all documents related to the independent contractor background screening process to attempt to solidify potential defenses to ...

A former government contractor allegedly performed hundreds of thousands of incomplete background investigations of federal government employees, including thousands of Internal Revenue Service ...

A number of Internal Revenue Service contractor employees who did not undergo the required background checks had access to taxpayer data, according to a new government report. The report, from the ...

WASHINGTONWASHINGTON — A new IRS inspector general report said the nation’s tax collection agency continued to give 19 contractors access to sensitive systems despite having background reports that ...

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