Tax refunds

President Trump's idea of mailing $2,000 "dividend" payments from tariffs to citizens marks a throwback to the stimulus checks distributed during COVID.

The agency also saw a more than 1% jump in the total number of tax returns received and processed.

Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins warns about the potential downsides for some taxpayers of the IRS moving entirely to electronic payments.

The American Institute of CPAs hopes to smooth the Trump administration's move away from paper tax refunds at the Internal Revenue Service.

Tax season wrapped up on April 15; here are the final filing statistics.

The median unclaimed tax refund from 2021 is $781, but it has to be claimed by April 15.

Elon Musk responded to a post suggesting a "DOGE Dividend" with a $5,000 check sent to taxpaying households, saying he would "check with the president."

Sens. Bill Cassidy and Mark Warner introduced legislation supported by the AICPA that would create a dashboard to inform taxpayers of backlogs and wait times for refunds.

The amount of time that identity theft victims have to wait for tax refunds has increased as the Internal Revenue Service has shifted priorities, with some waiting nearly two years.

Due to a software glitch, some TurboTax customers were inappropriately encouraged to take deduction choices resulting in higher taxes.

Taxpayers and clients have scads of wrong ideas about taxes — and they have even more wacky notions about tax refunds.

Fewer U.S. taxpayers have received a refund this year in the run-up to tax day compared to 2023, signaling some consumer spending may be disrupted.

Time is running out for nearly 940,000 individuals to claim refunds from 2020, with a May 17 deadline approaching for filing the necessary tax returns.

The Internal Revenue Service has been making progress on catching up with its backlog of unprocessed tax returns, but more work needs to be done, according to a new report.

Despite a later start, tax filing is proceeding apace — though there are some unresolved issues.

Billions of dollars later, the agency is claiming major improvements in service, technology and enforcement.

The service is asking approximately 1.5 million people to claim their refunds for tax year 2019 by the July 17 deadline.

A judge handed the bankrupt holding company for the failed bank a victory in its strategy to pay bondholders.

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With the final stats from this year's filing in, it seems clear that it was one of the most normal in years.