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Hacker Tracker: The Evolving Threat Of Tax Fraud

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Earlier this year, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration reported that there was a reduction in the number of fraudulent tax returns identified between 2013 and 2015. What’s Next In Tax Fraud. As of February, the number of mentions in 2017 so far was already over 40 percent of the 2016 total.

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Deep Dive: How Firms Can Avoid Costly Mistakes Come Tax Season

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businesses are likely already feeling tax season’s pressures. Filing is exhausting and complicated for individuals, and businesses experience those tax difficulties to a far greater degree. SMBs And Manual Tax Frustrations. Digitizing these processes can ease SMBs’ tax frustrations. Spring may seem far away, but U.S.

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Major Retailers Brace For Gift Card Fraud

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To counter fraud as the holiday season approaches, Best Buy , Target and Walmart made changes to their gift card programs. In those cases, scammers have reportedly impersonated tax agents looking for payments for purportedly owed taxes or grandchildren needing funds to get out of legal difficulties.

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Email Fraudsters Take Advantage Of Coronavirus Opportunity

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Officials are warning of a rise in phishing attacks, while retailers have also been warned about fraud risks, with Amazon recently removing 1 million products for allegedly making fraudulent claims, recent Forbes reports said. Secret Service Department of Homeland Security wrote in a warning published earlier this month.

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Radial’s Fraud Combating Solution For eCommerce Growth

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Radial , an omnichannel and fraud solutions provider, is promising to take away merchant woes with a suite of solutions, which it says improves order conversion rates and helps eliminate fraud. 2015, online fraud is forecast to explode from an estimated $3.1 billion in 2015, to $6.4 percent industry average.

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Degrees Of Fraud: Digital Identity At Online Universities

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One of the biggest forms of education-related fraud is as simple as it is prevalent: students sending someone else to take tests for them. This type of fraud played a significant role in this year’s widely publicized college admission scandal. The university began utilizing a webcam-based system in 2015. Trust, But Verify.

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Onyx CenterSource Partners With Sovos On eInvoicing Expansion

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Onyx CenterSource , a global provider of B2B payments and business intelligence solutions to the hospitality industry, announced it has partnered with tax software provider Sovos to expand its Onyx’s InvoicePro eInvoicing capabilities. The company has now chosen Sovos to help it meet the upcoming changes in the compliance sector.

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