ID Verification

For compliance with IRS regulations, Keeper needs to confirm your identity when submitting your tax returns through our platform. Before forwarding your return to the IRS, you will be prompted to respond to three random security questions.

You'll be given one hour to answer the questions. If that time elapses, fresh questions will be presented.

If you're unsure of the answers, you can leave the filing flow and return later. Upon your return, new questions will be provided.

If you get a possible audit risk found notification; this may mean you need to go back to the name, SSN, and address sections — please go into the filing flow under Household details to double-check your entries for each section. 

 

If you don't encounter the above error notification, when your return is ready for you to confirm amounts, you'll be asked the three questions to validate your identity right before you submit your tax return to the IRS.

Here are sample questions of what it looks like below: