The IRS is expanding the number of taxpayers who will receive an Identity Protection Pin (IP PIN) for the upcoming season. All taxpayers that have had an identity theft indicator applied to their IRS tax account will receive an IP PIN that must be included on their 2012 Federal income tax return. This means that approximately 600,000 taxpayers will receive an IRS identity theft pin for the upcoming filing season.
The affected taxpayers will receive their IP PIN in a notice (Notice CP01A) from the IRS in December 2012. This notice will include their 6-digit IP PIN and information on the use of the IP PIN.
If you know that any of your customers have been the victim of identity theft you may want to inform them that they will be receiving this notice in December. They will need to keep it and bring it in with the rest of their tax information when they come to have their 2012 income tax return prepared.
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