Federal Revenue warns of new scam involving income tax refund (FOR THE WEEKEND)
With the deadline for submitting the Individual Income Tax Return (IRPF) 2022 approaching, the Federal Revenue warns taxpayers about the practice of a new blow against people in the tax declaration process. In the latest coup attempt, criminals are impersonating the agency to harm people who are reporting to the tax authorities.
The agency reminds you that care must be taken with emails, used for the practice of coup. The criminals send emails trying to convince taxpayers to confirm a false registration to receive the IRPF refund. To give more credibility, fraudulent images are used with the commemorative logo of the Federal Revenue Service for the 100th anniversary of the Income Tax, in addition to the gov.br account.
In the message, which contains a malicious link to view a false proof of receipt of the refund, criminals inform the data to receive the refund via Pix. There is no data on the number of people who received email false and about who was harmed.
The Revenue reminds you that it does not send emails or alert to taxpayers with messages that have some kind of link and that taxpayers must confirm the information in official channels.
“The alerts sent by the IRS by email or message do not have links of access. All information received must be confirmed directly on the e-CAC Portal, with secure access through the gov.br account.
The deadline to submit the IR 2022 statement ends on May 31. According to the refund calendar, payments begin to be made, in five batches, also starting on the 31st.
Anyone who does not declare the tax by the deadline is subject to a fine, the amount of which is 1% per month, on the amount of income tax due, limited to 20% of the income tax amount. The minimum amount of the fine is R$ 165.74.
Until last Thursday, the Federal Revenue reported that 20,889,198 IRPF 2022 statements, calendar year 2021, had already been delivered. The expectation is that 34,100,000 statements will be sent by the end of the deadline.
