If you had an overpayment on your 2019 federal income tax return, you may be receiving interest on the overpayment. Interest payments, averaging about $18, have been made to individual taxpayers who filed a 2019 return by this year’s July 15 deadline and either received a refund in the past three months or will receive […]
Death taxes are commonly referred to as INHERITANCE tax or ESTATE tax. Some states have both, some states have neither and some states have one or the other. For Federal purposes, there is only estate taxes to be concerned with. If you become subject to Federal Estate Tax, that means that you have a gross […]
Fake Payments with Repayment Demands: Criminals are always finding new ways to trick taxpayers into believing their scam including putting a bogus refund into the taxpayer’s actual bank account. Here’s how the scam works: A con artist steals or obtains a taxpayer’s personal data including Social Security number or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) and […]
Scams targeting non-English speakers: IRS impersonators and other scammers also target groups with limited English proficiency. These scams are often threatening in nature. Some scams also target those potentially receiving an Economic Impact Payment and request personal or financial information from the taxpayer. Phone scams pose a major threat to people with limited access to […]
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