For filing season 2016, the Internal Revenue Service will test a capability to verify the authenticity of W-2 data as part of a series of steps to combat tax-related ID theft and refund fraud.

This year, several tax forms have been revamped to make the process easier and more efficient.

The Ohio Department of Taxation said it has blocked more than 297,000 fraudulent income tax returns attempting to steal $533.7 million in refunds since the flood of tax fraud started in 2014 in Ohio and nationally.

In this article, we will look at changes required for 1099s.

And get ready for the tax filing season.

Some retirement policy reform plans have called for capping the amount that could be contributed pretax to retirement accounts. A Republican plan put forward in 2014, for example, would have disallowed contributions to traditional IRAs and removed income limits on Roth IRA contributions.