 Internal Baptist Health IRS tax news. Free IRS FTC webinar to focus on scams, ID theft, and IPPINs. To register, just go to this unsecure website and provide all sensitive information including social security numbers, passwords, and tracking information on the mobile phones for you, your family members, and all your clients. Just kidding, that's the kind of thing we're going to tell you not to do. But first, an attempt at a joke. Inflation is up. Inflation is out of control. What's the administration's plan? To fight fire with fear. With fear. Fear brought about by lies. Lies designed to distract. Distraction leading to boredom. Boredom leading to hunger. I'm hungry, mother. I'm hungry. Hunger leading to inflation worries. Inflation worries causing news watching. News watching causing fear. Fear brought about by lies. Lies designed to distract. Distraction leading to boredom. I'm bored. Boredom leading to hunger. Hunger leading to inflation worries. Inflation worries causing news watching. News watching causing fear. Hey, I think I'm seeing a pattern here. Hmm, I think I'm noticing a pattern. That fear thing's where we started, isn't it? That's where we started. This doesn't look like a positive cycle. IR 2022-13, July 14, 2022, Washington. The Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Trade Commission will sponsor a free webinar designed to help everyone recognize and combat tax scams and tax-related identity theft. The webinar will also explain how any individual taxpayer can receive an added layer of identity protection by applying for an identity protection, personal identification number, an IPPIN, also known as an IPPIN from the IRS. The one-hour webinar will take place on Wednesday, July 20 at 2 p.m. eastern time, open to all the webinar will recover the following topics. So one first topic, number one bullet point, number one topic. Common consumer and tax-related identity theft scams. Number two, method for reporting and recovering from identity theft. Then we have how identity thieves track your victims or trick your victims into providing personally identifiable and financial information. IRS identity protection, personal identification number program, how to avoid unscrupulous tax return preparers, those unscrupulous people. There's more unscrupulous people than I would have previously thought. Honestly, I think it's coming to light with this TikTok thing out there. You're like, man, there's a lot of unscrupulous people out there. I was not aware of the ratio. Anyways, resources to protect against identity thieves, how the security summit is working to protect taxpayers. The webinar will be closed, captioned and featured a question and answer session. The register for the webinar visit the internal revenue service webinar registration page. There's a link to that here. It's also, of course, on the IRS website, irs.gov, irs.gov, irs.gov, the for victory over registering for the webinar. For questions about the webinar, send an email. I won't read the email address, but if you want to send an email for questions, you can have a link. There'll be a link to this in the description. Whether attending the webinar or not, anyone can get more information about recognizing and combat and tax-related ID theft at irs.gov forward slash identity theft. Got to combat those identity thieves. Someone's got to do it. The Justice League isn't doing the thing. So it's up to us, the vigilantes out there to take these identity thieves down. Anyways, you can get more information there. A little bit of a rant there. That's unrelated. To apply for an IPPIN and IPPIN, or for more information about the identity protection personal identification number program, you can visit irs.gov forward slash IPPIN irs.gov forward slash IPPIN. There's a link to that here. There's a link to the other stuff here. And there'll be a link to this in the description.