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09/16/2025

As peak periods for hurricanes and wildfires remain high, now is a great time to prepare your emergency preparedness plan. The urges you to safeguard your records to help speed up the recovery process. Be sure to keep important documents in fireproof or water proof containers, and consider creating digital backups.

For more tips on preparing or recovering from a disaster, visit https://ow.ly/lLbJ50WTiZf.

09/01/2025

Today we celebrate America's workforce, whose skill, grit, and determination strengthen our great country and embody the American Dream.

Happy Labor Day from SSA!

07/13/2025

IRS urges extension filers to use IRS Free File this summer

IR-2025-74, July 10, 2025

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service encourages taxpayers who requested an extension to file their returns now rather than wait until the Oct. 15 deadline. IRS Free File makes it easy.

IRS Free File is available 24/7 and offers free guided tax preparation for those with an adjusted income of $84,000 or less. Taxpayers can prepare and e-file federal returns securely with trusted partners at no cost. Free File Fillable Forms is available to all taxpayers who choose to prepare their own tax returns.

Filing over the summer helps avoid the fall rush and gives taxpayers more time to resolve issues or arrange payments, if needed.

Visit IRS Free File: Do your taxes for free to get started today. It’s fast, free and available now.

07/13/2025

07/13/2025

Make sure this doesn’t happen to you with your preparer.

News from the Justice Department’s Tax Division

A Phoenix man, Pacifique Kashosi, made his initial appearance in federal court after a grand jury in Phoenix returned an indictment charging him with filing false tax returns for himself and for clients of his tax preparation business. From 2021 to 2023, Kashosi allegedly prepared and filed false tax returns for clients of Africa Union Tax Services LLC, his return preparation business. Kashosi claimed false or inflated sick and family leave and fuel credits that created or increased refunds for his clients to which to he knew they were not entitled. The indictment further alleges that Kashosi earned income through the operation of his tax preparation business for the years 2022 and 2023 that he did not report on the tax returns he filed for himself for those two years. If convicted, Kashosi faces a maximum penalty of three years in prison for each count of aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false tax return.

02/10/2025

Whenever severe weather strikes — blizzards, heavy winds, or the recent devastating fires in Los Angeles — you can bet scammers are following the news to target people affected. So, how do you protect yourself against weather-related scams?

02/10/2025

Contact Social Security By Phone

01/26/2025

People are losing big money to scammers running complicated scams. The scams usually involve someone supposedly spotting fraud or criminal activity on one of your accounts, offering to help “protect” your money, sometimes asking you to share verification codes, and always telling you to move mon...

01/26/2025

Before the first The Golden Girls episode ever aired, thousands of American workers could tell the Earned Income Tax Credit "thank you for being a friend." Spread the word about : www.irs.gov/eitc
Happy birthday, Ms. Betty White!