What is KBA?

What is KBA?

KBA stands for Knowledge Base Authentication and is an IRS-compliant way to verify the identity of a user signing an 8879 electronically. You must answer all the KBA questions correctly. 

You will be required to answer four questions. If you answer one question incorrectly, you will be given two additional questions that you must answer correctly. 

Clients will have four total attempts to complete the KBA successfully. If the client fails all four KBA attempts, the agreement will be canceled and Liscio will generate an automatic comment on the task that notifies the Task Owner that the KBA was failed.



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