AUSTIN (KXAN) — The start of tax season is coming with a discussion Thursday from the federal government about how it intends to fight and monitor fraud throughout Texas.
Prosecutors from the U.S. Department of Justice along with agents from the Internal Revenue Service are holding a news conference in Austin to talk about their efforts to deal with tax fraud and other white collar crimes in the state. KXAN will provide a live stream of their remarks that people can watch in this story or on the station’s Facebook page starting at about 11 a.m.
According to a news release, the two federal agencies wrote, “Fighting white collar crime is a team effort. As tax season begins, the U.S. Attorneys from all four districts in Texas, along with CI’s Houston and Dallas field offices will announce their initiatives to thwart the criminals that steal from our nation’s programs and taxpayers, along with discussing efforts to protect individuals from becoming unwitting parts of those crimes.”
The IRS named Monday as the official start date of the 2024 tax season, and it expects more than 128.7 million tax returns to be filed by the April 15 tax deadline. This came as the agency underwent a big overhaul utilizing the billions of dollars directed to the agency through the Inflation Reduction Act signed into law in 2022.
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