{"id":11232,"date":"2015-05-15T11:50:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T15:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11232"},"modified":"2015-05-15T11:50:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T15:50:26","slug":"register-your-own-irs-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/15\/register-your-own-irs-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Register Your Own IRS Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danielpunkass\/status\/589429206662123521\">Daniel<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danielpunkass\/status\/589431752071974912\">Jalkut<\/a> recommends that you <a href=\"https:\/\/sa.www4.irs.gov\/eauth\/pub\/registration\/prereg1.jsp\">sign up<\/a> for your own account with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/Individuals\/Get-Transcript\">Internal Revenue Service<\/a> to help prevent fraud:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danielpunkass\/status\/589431752071974912\"><p>You filing by mail will not supersede a criminal having already filed online in your stead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I already had an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eftps.gov\/eftps\/\">EFTPS<\/a> account for tax payments, but this is separate. I am a little spooked that the answers to all my identity verification questions were &ldquo;none of the above.&rdquo; In order to actually download your records, you have to turn off Safari&rsquo;s pop-up blocker.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/irons\/status\/589481426451439616\">Nathaniel Irons<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/irons\/status\/589481426451439616\"><p>One unexpected consequence of signing up for an IRS account: &ldquo;Note: All future correspondence will be via email.&rdquo; Yikes.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Jalkut recommends that you sign up for your own account with the Internal Revenue Service to help prevent fraud: You filing by mail will not supersede a criminal having already filed online in your stead. I already had an EFTPS account for tax payments, but this is separate. I am a little spooked that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1195,103,48,1196,96],"class_list":["post-11232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-financial","tag-safari","tag-security","tag-taxes","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11233,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11232\/revisions\/11233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}