Tax refunds

The Internal Revenue Service is giving taxpayers more time until Nov. 21 to register their dependents for the $500 per child Economic Impact Payments provided under the CARES Act.

The Internal Revenue Service is giving taxpayers until the end of the year before it stops its temporary procedures for faxing in Forms 1045 and 1139 for claiming tentative tax refunds.

Internal Revenue Service commissioner Chuck Rettig heard complaints from lawmakers about their constituents missing stimulus payments.

At the center of President Donald Trump’s dispute with the IRS is a $72.9 million tax refund. He can thank his predecessor for that benefit.

The details published about Donald Trump’s tax returns were a revelation to the public but not to a small group of attorneys who work for a little-known congressional panel.

But the federal government has been able to correct some of its earlier missteps, like sending millions of stimulus checks to the deceased, according to the Government Accountability Office.

The Internal Revenue Service plans to mail out letters later this month to an estimated 9 million non-filers, encouraging them to claim their economic impact payments by an Oct. 15 deadline.

The Trump administration said it’s recovered almost 70 percent of $1.6 billion in relief payments mistakenly sent to dead people.

Practitioners share which part of the service’s pandemic-driven drop in service was most inconvenient to them.

The Internal Revenue Service plans to send approximately 50,000 “catch-up” economic impact payments.

The vast majority would still recommend their preparer, however, according to a new survey.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury plan to send interest payments averaging $18 to approximately 13.9 million taxpayers.

The Internal Revenue Service is giving parents another chance to list their kids so they can receive an extra $500 per child in economic impact payments under the CARES Act.

Democrats are demanding more Republican concessions to meet an end-of-the-week deadline for a deal on pandemic relief, and one of the chief White House negotiators warned there is little time left for negotiations.

The Internal Revenue Service is sending $500 payments to the children of some stimulus relief recipients who hadn’t gotten that part of the aid package after lawmakers complained that the agency wasn’t moving fast enough.

Democrats in Congress are criticizing how millions of economic impact payments authorized under the CARES Act are being handled.

Senate Republicans presented a series of bills that would trim unemployment benefits, send $1,200 to most Americans, and shield businesses, schools and other organizations from coronavirus lawsuits.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell waited until a key component of U.S. coronavirus aid was about to expire before drafting the Republican version of the next major relief bill, a decision that is increasingly looking like a significant miscalculation.

The 160 million Americans who got stimulus checks earlier this year would get another payment as soon as next month under a plan being negotiated by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Republicans and the White House are counting on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reconciling GOP differences with a draft coronavirus relief package that they can take into negotiations with congressional Democrats.