IRS

By now, everyone is familiar with the phone scam that attempts to delude victims into thinking that they owe delinquent taxes to the Internal Revenue Service. Point Pleasant Police have issued an unnerving description of the typical exchange.

A lawyer from Aberdeen, who allegedly got hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickback cash from doctors, is now charged with trying to hide it all from the Internal Revenue Service.

Thieves used an online service provided by the IRS to gain access to information from more than 100,000 taxpayers, the agency said Tuesday.

If you find filing your income taxes to be a headache, it's about to get much worse.