{"id":3832,"date":"2025-03-04T12:34:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T12:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acmmconsulting.com\/?p=3832"},"modified":"2025-05-17T00:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T00:03:05","slug":"dirty-dozen-tax-scams-for-2025-irs-warns-taxpayers-to-watch-out-for-dangerous-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acmmconsulting.com\/en\/dirty-dozen-tax-scams-for-2025-irs-warns-taxpayers-to-watch-out-for-dangerous-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Dozen tax scams for 2025: IRS warns taxpayers to watch out for dangerous threats"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Internal Revenue Service today announced its annual\u00a0Dirty Dozen<\/a>\u00a0list of tax scams for 2025 with a warning for taxpayers, businesses and tax professionals to watch out for common schemes that threaten their tax and financial information.<\/p>\n

Ranging from email schemes to misleading tax credits, many of the Dirty Dozen items peak during filing season as people prepare their tax returns. In reality, these\u00a0scams<\/a>\u00a0can occur throughout the year as fraudsters look for ways to steal money, personal information and data.<\/p>\n

The IRS’ annual Dirty Dozen campaign lists 12 scams and schemes that threaten taxpayers. While the Dirty Dozen is not a legal document or a formal listing of agency enforcement priorities, the education effort is designed to raise awareness and protect taxpayers and tax pros from common tax scams and schemes.<\/p>\n

\u201cScammers are relentless, and they use the guise of tax season to try tricking taxpayers into falling into a variety of traps. These red flags can lead to everything from identity theft to being misled into claiming tax credits for which they\u2019re not entitled,\u201d said Terry Lemons, IRS communications senior adviser. \u201cFor more than two decades, the IRS has highlighted the Dirty Dozen through far-reaching communications and education campaigns as part of a wider effort by the agency to protect taxpayers from being scammed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under Lemons\u2019 leadership, the IRS created the Dirty Dozen campaign in 2002 to counter emerging scams being seen across the country. Combined with related efforts by the\u00a0Security Summit<\/a>, the IRS has worked for a decade with state tax agencies and the nation\u2019s tax software and financial industry as well as tax professionals to educate taxpayers about scams and fraudulent schemes.<\/p>\n

The Dirty Dozen list often has cautioned taxpayers about tax-related identity theft, in support of the Security Summit\u2019s ongoing efforts in this area, that have led to protecting millions of taxpayers and billions of dollars from refund fraud.<\/p>\n

Last year, the tax community launched a related effort called the\u00a0Coalition Against Scam and Scheme Threats (CASST)<\/a>\u00a0following a surge in social media-fueled scams.<\/p>\n

As part of these continuing efforts to protect taxpayers against constantly evolving scams, the 2025 IRS Dirty Dozen list highlights the following 12 pervasive threats:<\/p>\n

Email phishing scams:<\/strong>\u00a0The IRS continues to see a barrage of\u00a0email and text scams<\/a>\u00a0targeting taxpayers and others. Taxpayers and tax professionals should be alert to fake communications from entities posing as legitimate organizations in the tax and financial community, including the IRS, state tax agencies and tax software companies. These messages arrive in the form of unsolicited texts or emails to lure unsuspecting victims into providing valuable personal and financial information that can lead to identity theft. There are two main types:<\/p>\n