Julie Magee

FILE - This April 13, 2014, file photo, shows the Internal Revenue Service headquarters building in Washington. Efforts to combat an escalating tax fraud problem are keeping thousands of legitimate filers from receiving their much-anticipated injection of tax return cash. Tax filers who opt to have their refund deposited directly onto debit cards are finding their cards frozen. The IRS said refund fraud caused by identity theft is one of its biggest challenges. In 2015, it stopped 1.4 million confirmed identity theft returns, totaling $8.7 billion. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

IRS opening tax refund fraud center in 2017

The Internal Revenue Service is standing up an Identity Theft Tax Refund Fraud Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) to help build on the 2016…

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