Earlier this summer the IRS, in restarting various electronic programs where unauthorized persons had established accounts to access taxpayer data or obtain reissued IP-PINs to file fraudulent returns, the IRS had added new procedures that included a requirement that a taxpayer establishing an account had a post-paid cellular phone.

After the Social Security Administration received complaints that many seniors did not have cell phones to be used for a similar program, that agency backed off the cell phone requirement. Now the IRS also modified the phone requirement to access certain online tools.

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