Instructions For Form 1040nr-Ez - U.s. Income Tax Return For Certain Nonresident Aliens With No Dependents - 2013 Page 17

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Interactive Tax Assistant
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(ITA)
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and websites designed to mimic
need to wait on the phone or stand in
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legitimate business emails and
line. The ITA is available 24 hours a
can get free help preparing your return
websites. The most common form is the
day, 7 days a week, and provides you
nationwide from IRS-certified
act of sending an email to a user falsely
with a variety of tax information related
volunteers. The Volunteer Income Tax
claiming to be an established legitimate
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The IRS does not initiate contacts
Answers not provided through ITA may
older with their tax returns. Most VITA
with taxpayers via emails. Also, the IRS
be found in
Tax
Trails, one of the Tax
and TCE sites offer free electronic filing
does not request detailed personal
Topics on IRS.gov which contain
and all volunteers will let you know
information through email or ask
general individual and business tax
about credits and deductions you may
taxpayers for the PIN numbers,
information or by searching the
IRS Tax
be entitled to claim. In addition, some
passwords, or similar secret access
Map, which includes an international
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information for their credit card, bank, or
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publications into one research tool and
message to phishing@irs.gov. You also
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provides single-point access to tax law
may report misuse of the IRS name,
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