Tax relief

In many cases, those impacted by the hurricane will have until Feb. 15 to file.

Following FEMA's disaster declaration, the IRS is pushing back some deadlines to help local taxypayers.

The agency issued billions of dollars in tax refunds to companies claiming net operating losses for prior years after passage of the CARES Act, but did little to examine the claims.

The Internal Revenue Service has been slow in processing employer tax credits and tax refunds that businesses were supposed to receive.

The agency is making progress on its backlog of unprocessed tax returns, as it's asked by the Institute to extend its recent penalty relief through the end of the year.

The tax agency will automatically issue the refunds or credits for most of the fees by the end of September.

The service is providing relief to most individual and business taxpayers who filed their 2019 or 2020 returns late due to the pandemic.

The IRS is granting postponements to St. Louis and a number of nearby counties.

More than half of U.S. states are using record budget surpluses to fund their biggest collective tax break in decades.

Small business owners have been hampered by complicated tax forms and processes that kept them from claiming pandemic-related tax credits and payroll tax deferrals.