Posts Tagged ‘tax refund’

IRS to Return $153 Million in Undelivered Tax Refunds

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

The IRS is seeking to return $153 million in undelivered tax refund checks to taxpayers in 2011. A total of 99,123 taxpayers are owed checks, averaging at total of $1547 per check, due to mailing address errors!
If you are one of the taxpayers still waiting to receive your tax relief refund, follow these steps provided by the IRS to get your earned income back where it belongs and how to
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IRS Oops: $110,000 Tax Refund Deposited into Man’s Checking Account

Friday, June 24th, 2011

Laguna Beach resident Stephen McDow woke up one day to find that the IRS had deposited a refund of $110,000 into his checking account. And so he spent it; Over the course of a year McDow spent more than half of the money in paying off his student loan debt, his mortgage and towards the purchase of a new. The catch… the refund did not belong to McDow and it
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IRS Treats Rabbi’s Tax Refund Scam As Seriously As Tax Evasion

Friday, September 11th, 2009

A Baltimore man was charged in connection with an international tax-fraud conspiracy that sought to obtain more than $35 million in federal and state income tax refunds using the identities of 3,300 federal prisoners.
Ten men, including the leader of the conspiracy, Marvin Berkowitz, 62, of Jerusalem, Israel, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Chicago after Berkowitz and the others were arrested in Israel and other locations throughout the
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The Check’s in the Mail

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Economic stimulus payments have started going out and according to the IRS, nearly 130 million payments will go out this year, via direct deposit and paper checks.
The IRS has posted Stimulus FAQs to answer a variety of questions on the payment schedule and amounts, factors affecting direct deposit of payments and the eligibility requirements.
If you filed early enough to have your return processed by April 15, and you still haven’t
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