DP Financial & Tax

Small businesses are immune to many threats that large businesses deal with; however, data loss is a threat that is lurking in the wings of both large and small businesses alike. Many small businesses don’t view their data as valuable enough to protect… until they lose it. Data loss can occur many different ways and always at an inconvenient time. There are several threats to data, but too often, small business owners stick their head in the sand and think they won’t be a

Learning that you are a victim of identity theft can be a stressful event. Identity theft is also a challenge to businesses, organizations, and government agencies, including the IRS. Due to this new norm, individuals and businesses alike have to take many different precautions in order to protect information and detect ID theft at its earliest possible stage. First, let’s look at a few ways businesses and government agencies are working to protect and detect electronic th

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today issued its annual “Dirty Dozen” list of tax scams, reminding taxpayers to use caution during tax season to protect themselves against a wide range of schemes ranging from identity theft to return preparer fraud. The Dirty Dozen listing, compiled by the IRS each year, lists a variety of common scams taxpayers can encounter at any point during the year. But many of these schemes peak during filing season as people prepare their ta