Everything about tax refunds — timing, tracking, delays, and what to do if yours isn’t showing up.
Yet another state has announced a delay in issuing tax refunds: South Carolina joins North Dakota and Illinois in slowing the issuance of tax refunds due to concerns over tax fraud. Utah has also slowed tax refunds by design.
Tax season is open! On January 19, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officially opened tax season – and so far, so good.
The IRS will begin processing tax returns on January 19, 2016. You can get a start on tax season now by having your return prepared but it won’t speed up the IRS.
Ever wonder if the check really is in the mail? For some postal customers in Pennsylvania, the answer was yes: those checks just never actually made it to their destinations. And they allegedly have Patrick D’Ambrosio to blame. D’Ambrosio, a 48 year old Philadelphia postal worker, has been charged with obstruction for failing to deliver…
Tax Day is over for most of us but some taxpayers are still looking for their refunds. Statistically, the IRS has processed refund requests at a faster pace than last year (101,176,000 refunds issued as of last week’s report compared to 101,082,000 for the same time period in 2013). Even so, taxpayers who haven’t yet…
A Washington Post story focusing on the seizure of tax refunds by the government to repay debt that was, in some instances, decades old has attracted attention. Of interest is the authority to seize tax refunds to pay back certain obligations.
Taxes from A to Z: O is for Overpayment
With tax season underway, the IRS is reporting that millions of taxpayers have already received refunds. Others, however, aren’t so lucky. As “Where’s My Refund?” changes from expected refund date to error codes, taxpayers are growing frustrated. The IRS has some (but not all) answers.
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 a…
Every one of us has had that moment when we’ve had to shuffle the cards a bit to make sure all of the bills get paid. That’s exactly the situation our country is finding itself in right now. And what’s in the stack of “to pay later”? It could be your tax refund. How could…
