There are some good ideas to combat identity theft when you prepare your income taxes in this posting in AccountingToday featuring Experian’s ProtectMyID service:
http://www.accountingtoday.com/gallery/Protecting-Clients-Tax-Related-Identity-Theft-66974-1.html?ET=webcpa:e7188:204199a:&st=email
As far as your tax preparer discussing how they protect your information, know that all my computer networks are encripted and password protected and documents are sent to clients through a link to my secure portal (nothing ever leaves the encripted lockbox), so your info is safe with me.
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