{"id":872,"date":"2016-06-13T08:44:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T13:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/?p=872"},"modified":"2016-06-13T08:44:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T13:44:40","slug":"irs-launches-rigorous-e-authentication-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/irs-launches-rigorous-e-authentication-process\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS Launches More Rigorous e-Authentication Process"},"content":{"rendered":"

Text-Enabled Cell Phone Required<\/h1>\n

\"Enrolled<\/a>To access the new Get Transcript Online feature of the Internal Revenue Service<\/a>, taxpayers must have an email address, a text-enabled mobile phone and specific financial account information, such as a credit card number or certain loan numbers.<\/p>\n

Taxpayers who registered using the older process will need to re-register and strengthen their authentication in order to access the tool.<\/p>\n

Tax transcripts are summaries of tax returns<\/a>. Transcripts often are used for non-tax purposes, such as income validation for mortgages or student loans.<\/p>\n

Taxpayers also can use transcripts to obtain their prior-year adjusted gross income<\/a> (AGI), which they need in order to e-file their self-prepared tax returns from home computers.<\/p>\n

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IMPORTANT NOTE:<\/strong> If we must obtain tax transcripts on a client under a Power of Attorney, we do it by telephone and secure fax.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Text-Enabled Cell Phone Required To access the new Get Transcript Online feature of the Internal Revenue Service, taxpayers must have an email address, a text-enabled mobile phone and specific financial account information, such as a credit card number or certain loan numbers. Taxpayers who registered using the older process will need to re-register and strengthen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-06-13T13:45:05Z","apple_news_api_id":"d2ffccdc-5e11-4407-9fc6-669dd9b749d5","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-06-13T13:45:05Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A0v_M3F4RRAefxmad2bdJ1Q","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","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":[1],"tags":[9,73],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-irs","tag-online-access"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}