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Sunday Mailbag: The Tax Refund Edition

17 April 2011

I’m peering out of my window on this early Sunday morning and there’s little evidence of the storms that moved through yesterday except for a lot of wet ground. I know that many of my friends and readers are not so lucky this morning, especially those in my home state of North Carolina. My thoughts [...]

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Taxes from A to Z: Q is for Questionable Refund Program

19 March 2011

Every year about this time, I get emails asking, more or less, what happens when you lie on your tax return to get a refund. There are the obvious answers… penalties, interest and depending on the severity, possible criminal prosecution. But there’s a lesser known potential consequence: having your return flagged as part of the [...]

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Does the IRS Have Your Money?

3 March 2011

The IRS has announced that there is $1.1 billion (yes, with a b) waiting for nearly 1.1 million people who did not file a federal income tax return for 2007. The last day to file and receive a refund for 2007 is April 18, 2011 – otherwise, that money goes back to the U.S. Treasury. [...]

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Free Money from the Government!

19 February 2008

I’ve received a number of questions over the past few days about the tax rebates slated to be mailed out in May. Most of the questions focus on the question of where the rebates come from and how they affect your liability or refund for 2007. The short answer is that the rebates should not [...]

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Looking for Spending Money for the Holidays?

19 November 2007

Maybe the Internal Revenue Service has some of your cash! The IRS is looking for 115,478 taxpayers who are due refund checks worthabout $110 million after the checks were returned as undeliverable. Yep, that averages out to nearly $1000 a pop. If you are expecting a refund and have not received one for the 2006 [...]

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