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.

A view of the IRS building in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images) A few years ago, the Internal Revenue Service announced that it had begun using the identity credential service ID.me ...

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

ID.me wins an IRS blanket purchase agreement valued at up to $1 billion for ID verification and authentication.

The IRS could soon require anyone logging into IRS.gov to use ID.me to verify their identity. Privacy experts and civil-rights advocates worry ID.me will share its ...