A system outage took the Internal Revenue Service out of the game for a day or so early in February, but by and large the tax season seemed to be progressing better than most in recent memory. (See our cover story.) Along with the usual issues caused by late third-party reporting, and the new ones created by the Affordable Care Act, the top concern on many minds was ID theft and other forms of tax-related fraud. The IRS reported identifying and halting an automated attack on its e-filing PIN application in early February, and warned both taxpayers and tax pre-parers of a "dramatic jump" in phishing and malware schemes. It issued a special warning for tax preparers to verify their EFIN activity, and to protect their EFIN and ETIN numbers and passwords.
展开▼
机译：系统故障在2月初将国税局停顿了一天左右，但总的来说，税收季节的进展似乎比最近记忆中的大多数都好。 （请参阅我们的封面故事。）除了由于第三方报告延迟引起的常见问题，以及《平价医疗法案》（Affordable Care Act）带来的新问题之外，许多人最关注的是ID盗窃和其他形式的与税收相关的欺诈行为。美国国税局（IRS）于2月初报告发现并停止了对其电子归档PIN应用程序的自动攻击，并警告纳税人和税务准备者，网络钓鱼和恶意软件计划会“急剧增加”。它向税务准备者发出了特别警告，以验证其EFIN活动，并保护其EFIN和ETIN号码和密码。
展开▼
