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 ...

ID.me will provide identity verification and authentication services to the Internal Revenue Service under a blanket purchase agreement.

Plans to gather biometric data have been abandoned, but verification will still be done by the controversial contractor ID.me Plans to gather biometric data have been abandoned, but verification will ...

"If IRS was requiring people to submit selfies and data directly to IRS (rather than to ID.me) -- and then IRS would send that data for analysis to ID verification vendors behind the scenes -- would ...

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 coming IRS direct file pilot, which will allow taxpayers in certain states to file their taxes directly to the government, will require participants to verify their identity via ID.me, according ...

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.

You will have to submit sensitive government documents, your Social Security number, credit history, and a face scan to ID.me, a third-party company. Reading time 6 minutes Editor’s note: This article ...

Despite the partial government shutdown, the Internal Revenue Service has reopened the Income Verification Express Service used by mortgage lenders to verify borrowers’ income, relying on user fees to ...

If you’re looking to create or access your online payment plans with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), you should be aware of some key changes. The IRS recently updated its identity verification ...

American taxpayers will soon be required to sign up with an identity verification company to access their Internal Revenue Service (IRS) accounts online. Currently ...