How is this even legal? Filed my 1040 and got a letter from the IRS saying I needed to verify using the irs website, while going through the motions it’s asking to use and disclose my biometric data to identify me and requiring me to submit my license.
What are my options here? Am I required to submit? My biggest worry is the implication of things to come by submitting to this forceful hand.
I ran into this too. There are ways around it. You can do a paper filing, which takes forever, but if you have access to all your tax documents from last year, you should be able to fill everything in without going through the authentification process.
I always use H&R Block, and when they asked for my AGI for last year, they gave me the option to get it from the IRS website. That's where I ran into the biometrics. Seemed kind of sus to me, so I dug through my files, found everything from last year, and calculated it myself.
And yes, my return was already accepted. They claim I'll get my return by the first week of March.