Additional Actions Can Be Taken to Further Reduce Refund Losses Associated With Business Identity Theft

The Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division, should expand the use of business identity theft filters to include *****************2******************* *************************************2*****************************************************************************2**************************************** *************************************2****************************.

The Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division, should Review the IRS’s Suspicious EIN Listing on a periodic basis to ensure that the dynamic selection lists include ****************2******************* information associated with the EINs on the IRS’s Suspicious EIN Listing.

The Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division, should ensure that the remaining 3,816 tax accounts on the IRS's November 2017 Suspicious EIN Listing are locked.

The Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division, should develop a process to periodically review the IRS's Suspicious EIN Listing to ensure that the EINs on the list are still considered bogus or fictitious businesses. This should include taking actions to research the accounts and contact the businesses.

The Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division, should, after performing each periodic review of the IRS's Suspicious EIN Listing, ensure that the EINs still deemed to be bogus or fictitious are locked.