I tried to e-file my 2019 return in July 2020, but it was rejected as a duplicate return. Being advised that I was a fraud victim, I submitted a fraud report to the IRS as instructed and filed my return by mail. When I was able to verify my online account at irs.gov and see the transcript for 2019, what I found was a transcript for a 1040 filled out with all zeros, except for reported income of $1.00. I saved a copy of that return, but it's since been removed from my IRS account and there is no transcript available for tax year 2019.
We had not received the first stimulus payment in Spring of 2020 because I had not yet filed our tax return. I used the non-filers tool at IRS.gov to request our stimulus payment.
Did the IRS create this $1.00 tax return to generate the stimulus payment? It is 3/10/21 as I write this and only yesterday did I finally receive written confirmation from the IRS of the fraud report I submitted in July 2020.
Has anyone else encountered this? I'm working on my 2020 return now, and afraid I'm going to run into issues e-filing if there is fraud reported under my SSN.
Thanks for any insight you might have.
