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Issue Number:  2025-16

Inside This Issue

• Security Summit: Protect against tax identity theft with multi-factor IDs
• Educational Assistance Programs can help pay employee student loans through 2025
• Nationwide Tax Forum deadline for Baltimore
• Other tax news

  Security Summit: Protect against tax identity theft with multi-factor IDs

The IRS and its Security Summit partners remind small businesses that using multi-factor authentication is more than a best practice – it’s a federal requirement for tax professionals.

A key part of tax professional security is MFA, which strengthens account security by requiring more than just a username and password to confirm an identity when accessing any system, application or device. Key points include:

• All tax professionals are required to use MFA to protect clients’ sensitive information under the Federal Trade Commission’s safeguards rule.
• Authentication factors include something only a user knows, like a username and password; something they have, like a token or random number sequence sent to their cell phone; or something unique, like biometric information.
• These factors assure that a tax professional’s client, not an impostor, is gaining access.
• MFA helps protect against phishing, social engineering and other technology attacks that exploit weak or stolen passwords.

For more information on MFA and other tax identity theft protection tools, see the news release.

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  Educational Assistance Programs can help pay employee student loans through 2025

Businesses and individual employers can continue to use educational assistance programs to help employees pay down student loans through Dec. 31.

Employers can include student loan payments as part of their broader educational assistance programs, which traditionally cover tuition, books, and other education expenses.

See Publication 15-B, Employer’s Tax Guide to Fringe Benefits for more information about setting up or administering educational assistance plans.

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  Nationwide Tax Forum deadline for Baltimore

Space is filling up for the remaining 2025 IRS Nationwide Tax Forum events. The standard rate deadline for Baltimore is Aug. 26.

For full details and to register online, visit IRS Nationwide Tax Forum.

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  Other tax news

This information may be of interest to individuals and groups in or related to small businesses:

• IRS verified social media accounts and e-new services are best sources for tax-related information

Important tax filing reminders:

• A change in marital status affects tax filing
• All taxpayers have the right to finality of tax matters
• Important reminders for extension filers choosing a tax preparer

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