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Tax ID Fraud is Taxing on Financial Institutions

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Understanding tax ID fraud FinCrime professionals looking to prevent tax ID fraud, first need to understand the fundamentals of what is happening and their best recourse for prevention. Takeaway 1 Fraudsters file illegitimate tax returns early, hoping people wait to submit their legitimate ones.

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Bulgaria Fines Tax Agency $2.9M Following Data Breach

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million) by the country’s data-protection agency over a data breach that compromised the personal information of almost every adult in the country. Reuters is reporting that the tax agency said it was going to appeal the decision. The NRA said that it had data-protection measures in place when the data theft happened.

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Gusto Cites Security Concerns In Zenefits API Dispute

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Small business accountants have said they are now forced to manually transfer data between payroll and human resources solution providers Gusto and Zenefits after the two companies abruptly ended their application programming interface (API) integration, AccountingToday reported.

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Tax Season Adds Extra Fraud Weight For SMBs

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Tax season is upon U.S. In a new report from ProofPoint , researchers warned that any businesses with the word “tax” in its domain is at risk of being spoofed by phishing attackers targeting small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Indeed, tax season isn’t the only threat hitting SMBs, either.

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T-Mobile: Hackers Accessed Customer Call Data

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T-Mobile has told some customers of a “security incident” in which a malicious party “may have impacted some of your T-Mobile account information.”. Customers whose call data has been compromised, even if their names haven't been obtained, are at heightened risk of attacks such as phishing by bad actors pretending to be mobile carriers.

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Thailand Govt Eyes Blockchain To Track Taxes

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As the saying goes, nothing in life is certain but death and taxes. To be certain of taxes, will blockchain seal the deal? Last week, Thailand’s Revenue Department was reported to be bringing blockchain projects into the fold to track tax payments, aided by machine learning.

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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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