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IRS To Mail Out Furlough Notices Next Week, Announcing Agency-Wide Shutdowns

19 April 2013

Tweet One week. That’s all it took. One week after Tax Day came and went, the Internal Revenue Service will send out furlough notices to its entire workforce. According to a press release from the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), those notices will identify five days when the IRS will be shut down entirely – [...]

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IRS Issues Extra Time, Statement On Boston Marathon Explosions (Updated)

16 April 2013

The Internal Revenue Service has announced that they will be offering filing and payment extensions for those affected by the events that unfolded in Boston yesterday.

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IRS, States Offer Extra Time To File Taxes Due to April Storms

16 April 2013

Tweet Ugh. There’s more snow in the forecast for parts of the country today. This, following reports of accumulations of more than a foot in parts of Minnesota and North Dakota with a particularly painful “up to 23 inches of snow reported in the Bismarck area.” In mid-April. Winter storms have been hammering much of [...]

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Tax Day Remains April 15, 2013, Despite Holidays And Hopes For Extensions

3 April 2013

Tweet As Tax Day creeps closer, I’ve been getting a slew of messages – on twitter, email and Facebook – hopeful that the big day will be pushed off a little bit more this year. Nope, not a chance. It’s true that tax season feels as though it’s rushing by faster than ever this year. [...]

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Does The IRS Have Your Tax Refund?

17 March 2013

Tweet It’s 2013. Do you know where your refund is? No, not your 2012 refund (arguably, no one knows where many of those are) but your 2009 refund. Nearly $1 billion in outstanding refunds remain unclaimed by an estimated 984,400 taxpayers who did not file a federal income tax return for 2009. How much is [...]

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IRS, H&R Block Release Statements About Processing Delays

13 March 2013

Tweet (Note: Updated to reflect Department of Education comments.) As anger continues to grow over delays with processing the federal form 8863, Education Credits, I reached out to the Internal Revenue Service, H&R Block and the Department of Education to answer your questions. IRS spokesperson Michelle Eldridge offered the following statement about the delays: The [...]

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Hundreds Of Thousands Of Taxpayers Thought To Be Impacted By Education Credit Snafu

12 March 2013

Tweet Tax season is proving to be a major headache for taxpayers this season. And it looks like it’s not about to get better for hundreds of thousands of taxpayers who claimed the American Opportunity Credit or the Lifetime Learning Credit on their personal income tax returns. To claim the credit, taxpayers must file a [...]

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IRS Explains Delays In Processing Some Returns Claiming Education Credits

9 March 2013

Tweet When the Internal Revenue Service finally announced that it was accepting federal form 8863, Education Credits (American Opportunity and Lifetime Learning Credits (downloads as a pdf), taxpayers heaved a sigh of relief. With a delayed tax season already in play, the additional two weeks pushed filing dates out more than three weeks for up [...]

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IRS Now Accepting All Individual Returns

4 March 2013

Tweet It’s official: 40 days after tax season was officially kick off, the Internal Revenue Service has announced that it is now accepting all returns. No, that’s not a typo. 40 days. Tax season was originally slated to open on January 22, 2013, but due to the last minute tax deal, opening day was delayed [...]

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IRS Won’t Delay Tax Season For Sequestration

28 February 2013

Tweet You remember when you were little and you would keep checking the sky for snow clouds on the offchance that you got a snow day? Welcome to the grown-up version: checking the Internal Revenue Service web site for sequestration news. But, like your mom, I’m going to give you the bad news, and I’ll [...]

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