{"id":21735,"date":"2015-01-27T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-police-warn-residents-about-irs-scams\/"},"modified":"2015-01-27T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T22:25:00","slug":"kent-police-warn-residents-about-irs-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-police-warn-residents-about-irs-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Police warn residents about IRS scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Now that tax season is in full swing, the Kent Police Department wants to remind everyone that it is also a time when criminals try to impersonate IRS agents in order to steal your money.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The IRS website identifies the most common scams at <a title=\"scam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/uac\/Tax-Scams-Consumer-Alerts\" target=\"_self\">irs.gov\/uac\/Tax-Scams-Consumer-Alerts.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Several things the IRS will never do include:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Call to demand immediate payment, nor will the agency call about taxes owed without first having mailed you a bill<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Demand that you pay taxes without giving you the opportunity to question or appeal the amount they say you owe<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Require you to use a specific payment method for your taxes, such as a prepaid debit card<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Ask for credit or debit card numbers over the phone<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 Threaten to bring in local police or other law-enforcement groups to have you arrested for not paying<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that tax season is in full swing, the Kent Police Department wants to remind everyone that it is also a time when criminals try to impersonate IRS agents in order to steal your money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-21735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21735"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}