Tax refunds

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The top five states in our ranking had an average individual income tax refund of $1,742.80 in 2021.

The service is giving taxpayers more time to file tax refund claims for tax returns they filed earlier in the pandemic.

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A tax season update from Stephen Mankowski of the National Conference of CPA Practitioners.

The service is planning to issue guidance as soon as today on whether special state tax refunds, rebates and payments from states like California, Virginia and others are taxable.

The agency said unexpectedly that it was still deciding whether state rebates to taxpayers were taxable income.

The service corrected approximately 14 million returns, generating nearly 12 million refunds.