The IRS is warning the public about new tax scams this season, including one encouraging people to defraud the government.

There was more than $5.7 billion in tax fraud in 2022 alone, the IRS said, and illicit schemes are already proliferating in 2023. 

One popping up on social media tells people to manually fill out a W-2 form with false income information in order to score a large refund.

According to a March 3 IRS bulletin, filers are encouraged to invent large incomes and withholding figures, make up a fictional employer and submit a return electronically in hopes of getting as much as five figures back from Uncle Sam. Click here to learn more…