The Internal Revenue Service has launched IRS News, an Instagram account. The account is designed to provide taxpayers with current information on a large variety of topics including tax law changes.
The IRSNews account will also provide information aboit tax scams to help support the Security Summit initiative, a joint effort between the IRS, states and the nation’s tax industry to combat tax-related identity theft.
“This platform will help make people aware of important options they have during the upcoming filing season as well as other tax information they might not be aware,” says IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig.
.Information will also be published in Spanish and other languages.
Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards. Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that. A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind