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Issue Number: Tax Tip 2024-64
Scam safety tip: Follow IRS verified social media accounts and subscribe to e-news services
Following inaccurate tax advice from social media influencers can have bad consequences. Taxpayers can protect themselves from misinformation and scams by following the IRS verified social media accounts and e-news services.
IRS social media platforms
Visit IRS.gov to get direct links to IRS verified social media accounts. IRS has accounts on:
- X, formerly Twitter – Information for taxpayers, businesses, tax-exempt organizations, tax professionals and job seekers. The IRS shares updates in English, Spanish, Chinese, Haitian-Creole, Korean, Russian and Vietnamese. A special IRS X handle, @IRStaxsecurityshares information to help people avoid common scams that could put their money and information at risk.
- Facebook – Tax information for a general audience in English and Spanish.
- Instagram − Taxpayer-friendly information on a variety of topics.
- YouTube − Short videos on specific tax topics for individual taxpayers, tax professionals and small businesses. The IRS also produces videos in Spanish, Chinese, Haitian-Creole, Korean, Russian, Vietnamese and American Sign Language.
- LinkedIn – Job opportunities and key agency communications.
The IRS never contacts taxpayers on social media to ask for their personal or financial information. Taxpayers should be aware that scammers may pose as the IRS to steal a taxpayer’s identity or defraud them.
Sign up for automatic email updates
The IRS e-News subscription service sends tax information by email for many different audiences, including:
- IRS Outreach Connection − Up-to-date materials for tax professionals and partner groups inside and outside the tax community. Subscribers can easily share the material with their clients or members through email, social media and the web.
- IRS Tax Tips – Tips in plain language on a wide range of general interest tax topics for taxpayers.
- IRS Newswire − News releases on tax issues from breaking news to details on legal guidance.
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