Protect your clients; protect yourself — Summer 2025

The Internal Revenue Service and the Security Summit partners remind tax professionals to stay alert against new and ongoing threats of tax-related identity theft this summer.

In its tenth year, the Security Summit partners continue to work together to raise awareness about data theft in the tax professional community through the Protect your clients; protect yourself campaign. The summer 2025 campaign, which includes a series of five news releases, is part of the larger effort by the Security Summit coalition—that includes the IRS, state tax agencies and the nation’s tax community—to battle tax-related identity theft.

Identity thieves are taking numerous approaches to steal sensitive information from tax professionals. Tax professionals need to be on the lookout to avoid falling prey to these attacks, which threaten not just their clients but their businesses.

News releases

• IR-2025-88, Security Summit: IRS reminds tax pros to guard against identity theft as summer series wraps up
• IR-2025-83, Security Summit: Protect against tax identity theft with multi-factor IDs, Identity Protection PINs, IRS Online Accounts
• IR-2025-79, IRS, Security Summitt remind tax pros they must have a Written Information Security Plan to protect client data
• IR-2025-75, Tax pros should watch out for phishing emails and other attacks, Security Summit warns

• IR-2025-73, IRS, Security Summit launch summer series to help tax pros protect clients from identity theft as Nationwide Tax Forums begin

Prior year campaigns

• Protect your clients; protect yourself — Summer 2024

• Protect your clients; protect yourself — Summer 2023
• Protect your clients; protect yourself — Summer 2022