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Ask the taxgirl: Making Work Pay Credit and Outstanding Liabilities

4 April 2009

Taxpayer asks: What about a taxpayer who owes the IRS $$$ from previous tax years? Should they adjust their W-4 to have more taxes taken out to cover the Making Work Pay credit that will be on their paychecks? Taxgirl says: It depends. The Making Work Pay Credit is refundable, so to the extent that [...]

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Where’s My Refund?

21 March 2009

About 10% of my “ask the taxgirl” questions right now are asking “Where’s my refund?” – though, admittedly, some ask in a nicer way than others. Your refund information is generally available about 72 hours after your tax return is processed. You can track your refund online with the “Where’s My Refund?” service offered by [...]

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Ask the taxgirl: TurboTax and Rebate Recovery Credit

14 February 2009

Taxpayer asks: Punched in all the numbers in TurboTax for my 2008 taxes. The first thing It asked was how much my 2008 Economic Stimulus rebate check was ($2100). Surprise, surprise, it reduced my 2008 refund by $2100. According to the IRS web site the rebate should not effect by 2008 refund plus or minus. [...]

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Where’s my refund?

26 April 2008

Whew. Tax Day has come and gone. Maybe you’re waiting on a refund – not the rebate (that’s something different) – but a refund. If at least 28 days has passed since you filed, you can check with the IRS to find out the status of your refund. You can: Call the IRS Refund Hotline [...]

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A refund? What are you spending it on?

11 April 2008

Thirty-five percent of taxpayers who expect to receive a tax rebate this year plan to use the money to pay utility, credit card, housing or other bills. This is according to an AP/AOL Money & Finance poll. Those numbers are up a few points from the twenty-seven percent who made the same statements a year [...]

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I Guess Scammers Don’t Read My Blog.

10 October 2007

I just received the following email with the header “Get Tax Refund on your VISA or MasterCard Now!” in my email today: After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $135.50. Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 6-9 [...]

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Looking for a little extra Christmas cash?

29 November 2006

You might be entitled to a little holiday bling, courtesy of the IRS. It seems that the IRS has checks for 95,746 taxpayers for a total of $92.2 million, refund checks which have been returned as undeliverable.  Those checks can be claimed as soon as the taxpayer updates an address with IRS or otherwise makes [...]

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irs.gov Breaks Own Record

20 April 2006

The IRS announced that there were more visits to its web site, www.irs.gov on April 17, 2006, than any other single day in the past.  The number of visits reached 3,385,936 as compared to the prior record of 3,337,300 visits on April 15, 2005. But the rush isn’t over yet…  The IRS reminds us that [...]

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