{"id":906,"date":"2018-02-23T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2018\/02\/23\/lege-trend-cyber-security-standards-for-tax-preparers-in-the-flowering-dogwood-state\/"},"modified":"2018-02-23T22:51:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T22:51:00","slug":"lege-trend-cyber-security-standards-for-tax-preparers-in-the-flowering-dogwood-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/lege-trend-cyber-security-standards-for-tax-preparers-in-the-flowering-dogwood-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege Trend. Cyber Security Standards for Tax Preparers in the Flowering Dogwood State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>State:<\/strong>\u00a0Virginia<\/p>\n<p><strong>The legislation:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?ses=181&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb183\">HB\u00a0183 (2018)<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?181+sum+sb271\">SB 271 (2018)\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s required by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?ses=181&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb183\">Virginia&#8217;s HB 183<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?181+sum+sb271\">SB 271<\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Any income tax preparer in Virginia has to notify the VA Department of Taxation of a cyber security breach\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Notification is triggered by when the tax preparer discovers the breach and must be done without unreasonable delay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Is there a cost savings according to the bill&#8217;s author?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, the state will save\u00a0$300,000 a year because the state\u00a0Department of Taxation won&#8217;t be issuing refunds to fake tax returns filed by hackers<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wric.com\/2018\/02\/20\/va-bill-takes-on-tax-return-data-breaches\/\">WRIC |\u00a0Va. bill takes on tax return data breaches<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>State:<\/strong>\u00a0Virginia<\/p>\n<p><strong>The legislation:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?ses=181&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb183\">HB\u00a0183 (2018)<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?181+sum+sb271\">SB 271 (2018)\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s required by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?ses=181&amp;typ=bil&amp;val=hb183\">Virginia&#8217;s HB 183<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/lis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?181+sum+sb271\">SB 271<\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Any income tax preparer in Virginia has to notify the VA Department of Taxation of a cyber security breach\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Notification is triggered by when the tax preparer discovers the breach and must be done without unreasonable delay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Is there a cost savings according to the bill&#8217;s author?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, the state will save\u00a0$300,000 a year because the state\u00a0Department of Taxation won&#8217;t be issuing\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fintech-finance-technology","category-legislative-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}