The U.S. IRS has announced the start of its annual Dirty Dozen list of tax scams with a warning on Employee Retention Credit claims. --- IRS kicks off annual Dirty Dozen with warning about phishing and smishing scams IR-2024-84, March 28, 2024 WASHINGTON —The Internal Revenue Service today kicked off the annual Dirty Dozen list with a warning for taxpayers to be aware of evolving phishing and smishing scams designed to steal sensitive taxpayer information. With taxpayers continuing to be bombarded by email and text scams, the IRS and the Security Summit partners warned individuals and businesses to remain vigilant...