National Tax Security Awareness Week by Colorado SBDC
Learn how to protect yourself from tax refund fraud.
Join Colorado SBDC and IRS Stakeholder Liaison, Neki Cox, to find out how!
Learn about:
- Common consumer and tax-related identity theft scams
- Identify methods for reporting and recovering from Identity Theft
- How identity thieves trick their victims into providing personally identifiable and financial information
- The IRS Identity Protection Personal Identification Number Program
- How to avoid bad return preparers
- Resources to protect yourself from identity thieves
- Plus, a live Q & A
Meet Our Presenter
Neki Cox is a C&L Division Sr. Stakeholder Liaison in Denver. As a stakeholder relationship manager, she has served as a coordinator for IRS seminars, meetings, and multi-speaker engagements. She focuses on developing communication and educational opportunities with tax practitioner, civic, non-profit and for-profit business organizations in Colorado and Nebraska. She has led and coordinated the IRS Disaster Assistance program with FEMA. She leads a cadre team that serve as tax professional data breach dispatchers to Criminal Investigation and other divisions.
Neki began her IRS career in 1995. She has held other positions in the Human Capital Office as a Recruiter and Analyst, in the Taxpayer Advocate Division as a Sr. Taxpayer Advocate, and in the Exam Division as an Office Auditor, Earned Income Credit Coordinator, and an e-File Marketing Specialist. She has prior experience in computer report writing, bookkeeping, collections, purchasing, customer service, sales, and restaurant management. Neki holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Small Business Management with an emphasis in Accounting from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.