Ayotte Requests IRS Return Fraudulent Tax Returns to Identity Theft Victims

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U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), this week sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen regarding the IRS' refusal to provide tax identity theft victims with copies of fraudulent tax returns filed in their names. Senator Ayotte wrote the letter with the intention of helping victims obtain copies of the fraudulent returns filed in their names so that the affected parties can determine what information was stolen in the identity theft.

"Tax-related identity theft victims have been through enough, and the least the IRS can do is to provide them with copies of their fraudulent returns so that they may secure their personal identity. While I understand that the agency has privacy concerns, victims deserve to know the extent of their identity theft, including what personal information has been compromised, in order to take action to protect themselves and their families," said Senator Ayotte.

Tax-related identity theft affects an increasingly alarming number of taxpayers every year - between 2010 and 2013 tax-related identity theft increased from 440,581 incidents to 2.9 million incidents.

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