What to do if you get a suspicious call from the IRS

Official calls from all United States Government agencies serve many different functions. Thus, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) may call in some cases to request information from the U.S. taxpayer, to subpoena him or her, or for many other things. However, some scammers are impersonating the Internal Revenue Service to get both information and money from citizens.

Scams like this are more common than they seem and we need to be very vigilant to avoid them. Therefore, try to pay attention to all the calls you answer and avoid at all costs that someone who is impersonating the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) manages to scam you directly.

There are several actions you can take when you get these calls. If you manage to avoid the scams, it is a very good idea to help the rest of Americans by directly offering the information you have about these IRS impersonators. Only in this way is it possible to prevent them from achieving their goal of stealing.

What to do if I get a suspicious call from the IRS?

First of all, the most common in these cases is to get the call from a phone we do not know. In that case, the best thing to do is always not to take the call and block the number directly. In the event that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) really wants to contact us, it will be able to do so by other means.

Be that as it may, if we have finally picked up the call and have identified some scammers there are several actions we can take:

• If the call is related to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), contact the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA).
• If the call is related to the Treasury, then contact the Office of the Treasury Inspector General (TIG).

In this way we can manage to avoid these kinds of calls. When we call the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to report these calls, we must give all the information we have. Therefore, we must be attentive and give the following information:

1. The telephone number that called us.
2. The telephone number that we have been instructed to call in the case that it has been so.
3. Any name of the worker we may have heard.
4. A description of the call, giving as much detail as possible.
5. If the worker has identified himself, the employee number.
6. It is also useful to know both the time and the area of the call.

Thanks to having all this information, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) could evaluate the call and thus try to catch the scammers. Be that as it may, we must always be alert to avoid this type of scams, since they are very common nowadays and can be a huge problem for citizens who just want to live in peace and pay their taxes on time.