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Is the IRS Doing Enough to Combat Identity Theft?
But with income tax refund identity theft rapidly becoming a scourge, is the less than 300 cases for 2014 keeping up or even putting a dent in the epidemic? After all, in 2013 alone, there were 33,000 claims of identity theft just in Florida, one of the hardest hit states because of the abundance of residents who are at higher risk, particularly the elderly and immigrants.