The IRS phone number is 800-829-1040, but that is not the only way to contact IRS customer service. Here are the many ways you can get in touch with IRS customer service if you need help this tax ...

The IRS has multiple different phone numbers you can call to reach a live person.

Knowing when, and how, exactly, the IRS might contact you in the event of an issue can be the key to keeping your information safe from would-be scammers.

If you receive one of these calls, the attorney general recommends that "you should hang up immediately and report the scam to the IRS." The number to report a possible scam to the IRS is 800-829 ...

The most recent IRS phone scam is raking in some big numbers: 90,000 complaints to the Treasury Inspector General’s Office and more than $5 million bilked from 1,100 victims. Consumers were first ...

The periods during specific years that IRS call centers were reallocated to answer FEMA calls. The approximate number of IRS call center employees reallocated to FEMA for each reallocation period.

IRS phone-number scams The IRS placed phone scams as No. 1 on its dirty dozen tax scams list this year, up from No. 2 last year, when it received more than 90,000 complaints about such calls. It's ...

Other signs: Caller ID might show an IRS number but that number is being spoofed and it's not a real IRS call. The scammers may give a fake name and a fake IRS badge number to sound more authentic.

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen warned in a conference call with the media in December that a number of scams are circulating and taxpayers need to take care to avoid con artists posing as ...

Recently I heard from four individuals who had been touched by IRS-related telephone scams. The first was a panicking client who had received a call telling him he owed money and needed to respond ...