The Office of the Tax Ombud has revealed that incidents of hijacking e-filing profiles are on the rise.
During an online release of the reports preliminary findings on Wednesday, the Tax Ombud Yanga Mputa pointed out that the highest level of e-Filing Profile Hijacking occurs among registered tax practitioners.
Tax Ombud-Yanga Mputa says tax practitioners accounted for 48 of e-Filing profile hijacking, followed by individual taxpayers at 32, tax practitioners representing individuals at 13 and corporate taxpayers were the least affected at 5.
Because taxpayers represent multiple taxpayer accounts, which require them to log into various taxpayer profiles. This frequent switching in and out of multiple profiles accounts elevates the access of e-filing profile hijacking, making them easy targets. Another and another thing that is the target value, whereby if one tax practitioner logs it gives profile hijackers a lot of access to other taxpayers.
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