{"id":1997015,"date":"2023-08-10T18:05:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T22:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/treasury-inspector-general-says-irs-loses-millions-of-sensitive-tax-records\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T18:08:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T22:08:29","slug":"treasury-inspector-general-says-irs-loses-millions-of-sensitive-tax-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/treasury-inspector-general-says-irs-loses-millions-of-sensitive-tax-records\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS loses millions of sensitive tax records, says Treasury inspector general."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftreasury-inspector-general-says-irs-loses-millions-of-sensitive-tax-records%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1997015&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The IRS Loses Millions of Sensitive Taxpayer Records<\/h2>\n<p>In a shocking revelation, a federal watchdog\u2064 has reported that the IRS \u2063has lost\u2063 millions of sensitive taxpayer records at two different\u200c agency \u200bfacilities. This alarming incident raises concerns about the security of personal taxpayer information and the potential for\u200c tax refund fraud and\u2063 identity theft.<\/p>\n<h3>Missing \u200dRecords and Empty Boxes<\/h3>\n<p>The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration&#8217;s\u200c report highlights the \u200ddisappearance\u200b of millions of business and individual tax records. These records were supposed \u200bto be transferred from a closed \u2063California storage facility but were found to be missing. Additionally, \u200bthousands of\u200b records were also unaccounted for at a warehouse in Utah. It is worth noting\u200d that the IRS stored these records on microfilm backup cartridges.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, the watchdog discovered seven empty boxes at the Utah facility, which should have contained up to 168 microfilm cartridges. Each cartridge has the capacity to hold up\u2062 to 2,000 photographic images. Surprisingly,\u200c the IRS personnel at the location were unable to provide\u2063 any information about\u2062 the whereabouts of these cartridges.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to \u2062the mystery, the contractor responsible for creating the \u2064backup cartridges went\u200c out of business in 2018, \u2063further complicating the situation.<\/p>\n<h3>A Disturbing Pattern<\/h3>\n<p>This is not the first time the IRS has faced scrutiny over mishandling taxpayer information. In March 2021, it \u2063was revealed that the agency had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/treasury-inspector-general-says-irs-loses-millions-of-sensitive-tax-records\/\" title=\"IRS loses millions of sensitive tax records, says Treasury inspector general.\">destroyed 30 million unprocessed paper tax returns<\/a>. Now, with the \u200bloss\u2063 of sensitive\u200c records, concerns \u200cabout the IRS&#8217;s ability to protect taxpayer \u200bdata are growing.<\/p>\n<h3>IRS Response and Future Steps<\/h3>\n<p>IRS Wage and Investment Commissioner Kenneth Corbin responded \u200cto the\u200b report,\u200c acknowledging that the agency&#8217;s\u200c reduction in staff, redirected to higher priority tasks, may have contributed to the unknown whereabouts of the records. However, he assured the public that the IRS is actively working on processing shipments of tax records and is confident that the remaining cartridges will be incorporated once the backlog of non<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/irs-lost-millions-of-sensitive-taxpayer-records-watchdog\/\" title=\"IRS loses millions of taxpayer records, says watchdog.\">-tax documents<\/a> is cleared.<\/p>\n<p>As\u200d the investigation continues, it is \u2062crucial for the\u2063 IRS to address these security lapses and take immediate steps to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-reps-jordan-issa-demand-transparency-from-irs-over-partisan-leak-of-tax-records\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Reps. Jordan, Issa Demand Transparency From IRS Over \u2018Partisan\u2019 Leak Of Tax Records\">safeguard taxpayer information<\/a>. The public&#8217;s trust in the agency&#8217;s\u2062 ability to protect their sensitive data hangs in the\u2062 balance.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to\u2064 read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IRS misplaced millions of taxpayer records at two agency facilities, as per a federal watchdog. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration&#8217;s report revealed that business and individual tax records, supposed to be moved from a closed California storage facility, were lost. Moreover, thousands of records were also unaccounted for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1997016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}