Tax refunds

The IRS warned Friday of a fast-approaching deadline for $1.5 billion in unclaimed tax refunds for 2018, which need to be claimed before the mid-April tax deadline.

Americans are still benefiting from a raft of pandemic relief measures that are contributing to the biggest tax refunds seen at this point in the filing season in more than a decade.

Think you pay too much in taxes? You probably do, if you are like the 46% of Americans who say they’re looking to get a refund check from the IRS this year.

The service is expanding its capacity to process tax returns following criticisms from members of Congress about taxpayers waiting months for refunds.

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The Internal Revenue Service backlog is adding to long delays in processing carryback refunds of net operating losses claimed by companies during the pandemic.

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Two leaders of Congress’s main tax-writing committee introduced legislation Friday to undo tax refund delays for recipients of the Earned Income Tax Credit who file their taxes early.

National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins expressed deep concerns Wednesday about the upcoming tax filing season in her annual report to Congress on the 2021 filing season.

The Internal Revenue Service expanded the transition period from 30 to 45 days to provide evidence to back up tax refund claims involving the research and development credit, while issuing new guidance.

The National Society of Accountants has sent a letter asking the IRS to speed up the refunds for 2019 and 2020 tax returns and communicate better.

Certain high-value refunds and credits get sent to the JCT for review.

Processing delays at the Internal Revenue Service have practitioners scrambing to explain missing tax refunds.

The Internal Revenue Service is planning to host events this weekend in a dozen cities to help people who usually don’t file a tax return register for monthly Advance Child Tax Credit payments.

Taxpayers won't be able to recover previously paid Medicare taxes and NIIT.

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The Internal Revenue Service is holding up millions of tax refunds for manual processing and its systems were unable to process many of the quarterly payments that needed to be sent by April 15.

Security experts are seeing a rise this tax season in phishing schemes and malware tied to hot-button subjects like tax refunds, stimulus payments and COVID-19 vaccines.

The highest median potential unclaimed refunds are in New Hampshire.

The service intends to take steps to automatically refund money starting in May and continuing through the summer.