Submit a Complaint
Call 911 immediately if reporting an imminent threat of harm and/or loss of life.
Please select the issue that you want to report:
- I want to report a non-imminent threat against an IRS or TIGTA employee and/or facility.
- I was threatened with immediate arrest if I did not pay my taxes.
- I was threatened with a civil action (revocation of driver license, suspension of Social Security Number, filing liens, etc.) if I did not make an immediate tax payment.
- I am an IRS employee and I was assaulted by a taxpayer as a result of my IRS duties.
- I am an IRS employee and I was retaliated against as a result of my IRS duties.
- An IRS employee threatened to audit me.
Please select the issue that you want to report:
Please select the issue that you want to report:
- I have not received a stimulus payment, Economic Impact Payment, Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act payment, or American Rescue Plan Act payment.
- I have not received an advance Child Tax Credit payment.
- My spouse or ex-spouse claimed our advance Child Tax Credit payment.
- My spouse or ex-spouse claimed our child as a dependent and received an IRS payment when they were not entitled to claim our dependent.
- I have not received my tax refund.
- I am having issues with unemployment payments.
- I am trying to find out if the IRS processed my tax payment and/or tax return.
- I submitted a payment to the IRS and the IRS confirmed it was not received.
Please select the issue that you want to report:
- My spouse or ex-spouse stole our advance Child Tax Credit payment.
- My spouse or ex-spouse claimed our child as a dependent and stole our IRS payment.
- I am trying to find out if the IRS processed my tax payment and/or tax refund.
- I am having issues with unemployment payments.
- I submitted a payment to the IRS and the IRS confirmed it was not received.
- My stimulus payment, Economic Impact Payment, Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act payment, or American Rescue Plan Act payment was stolen.
- My tax refund was stolen.
- My advance Child Tax Credit Payment was stolen.
Please select the issue that you want to report:
- My spouse or ex-spouse claimed our child as a dependent and received an IRS payment.
- A non-IRS employee filed a false tax return.
- An IRS employee filed a false tax return.
- My tax refund was stolen.
- Someone is impersonating an IRS or Treasury employee.
- I was threatened with immediate arrest if I did not pay my taxes.
- I was threatened with a civil action (revocation of driver license, suspension of Social Security Number, filing liens, etc.) if I did not make an immediate tax payment.
- I believe that someone has set up a fake IRS website.
- I was directed to pay the IRS so I could receive my sweepstakes, lottery, or prize winnings.
Please select the issue that you want to report:
- A tax preparer filed an inaccurate tax return in my name and Social Security Number or Taxpayer Identification Number.
- A tax preparer stole a portion of my tax refund.
- A tax preparer stole/misused my identity.
- A tax preparer disclosed my tax return to an unauthorized person.
- A tax preparer claimed a fraudulent Employee Retention Credit.
Please select the issue that you want to report:
Please select the issue that you want to report:
- I received correspondence from the IRS.
- I am trying to verify if IRS correspondence was actually sent by the IRS.
- I am having trouble reaching someone at the IRS via the toll-free telephone number.
- I am having trouble getting updated information about the status of my tax return or tax refund on the IRS website.
- Someone is impersonating an IRS or Treasury employee.
- Someone is misusing IRS or Treasury symbols and names.
Please visit the hotline form to enter your complaint.
All submissions must have an IRS employee named with a detailed explanation of the allegation in order for preliminary investigative steps to be taken.
Please select the issue that you want to report:
Please visit Whistleblower Protections.
Due to pending updates to IRS Publication 1075, please report all incidents directly to the IRS Office of Safeguards at [email protected]. There is no longer a requirement to additionally report these issues directly to TIGTA. TIGTA will work directly with the IRS Safeguards program on reported issues and will not respond back directly to your agency unless necessary.
Our investigative program focuses on three primary areas of concern: employee integrity; employee and infrastructure security; and external attempts to corrupt tax administration. Read more about our investigative mission.
Examples of specific allegations that should be reported include, but are not limited to:
- Attempts by taxpayers to bribe IRS personnel.
- Extortion or misuse of position by IRS personnel.
- Assaults and/or threats by taxpayers against IRS employees.
- Schemes involving the use of computer technology or mail that impersonate the IRS or IRS personnel.
- Misconduct by tax practitioners (falsification of qualifications, theft of IRS tax remittances, and theft of IRS tax refunds). TIGTA does not investigate tax practitioners who prepare fraudulent tax returns.
By phone:
1-800-366-4484
By mail:
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration
Hotline Team
P.O. Box 23291
Washington, D.C. 20026-3291