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…
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….
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…
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…
A federal judge has ruled that New Jersey cannot limit the interest rates and fees national banks can charge for taxpayer RALs (refund anticipation loans) even though the judge noted that the loans’ APR average 115%. Nope, not a typo, that’s well over 100%. New Jersey law limits interest and fees to 30% of the…
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…
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…
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…