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Bauer Business Focus

Bauer Business Focus: David Gair On Avoiding ‘IRS’ Telephone Scammers

Phone scams involving fake IRS agents are at an all-time high.

| March 28, 2014, 6:30 PM (Last Updated: December 1, 2016, 8:33 PM)

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The approach of Tax Day regularly brings a jump in phone fraud activity. Individuals claiming to represent the IRS call taxpayers demanding money for unpaid taxes.

David Gair is a tax attorney with Houston law firm Gray Reed & McGraw. He joins Andrew Schneider on this week’s installment of the “Bauer Business Focus.”

Andrew Schneider

Politics and Government Reporter

Andrew Schneider is the senior reporter for politics and government at Houston Public Media, NPR's affiliate station in Houston, Texas. In this capacity, he heads the station's coverage of national, state, and local elections. He also reports on major policy issues before the Texas Legislature and county and city governments...

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