With the 2025 filing season behind us, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration reports the IRS performed well, ...

If you requested an automatic six-month extension to file your federal tax return using Form 4868, your new deadline is Wednesday, October 15, 2025. That extra time can help you organize your ...

Viral claims of IRS stimulus checks in October 2025 are false; no official announcements exist, and such posts may be scams. Claims have gone viral on social media saying that the Internal Revenue ...

Taxpayers face a learning curve for figuring out how key tax deductions in the mega tax bill will work when they file 2025 ...

In a move to make payments more efficient and to reduce the risk of fraud, the federal government is changing both how they receive taxpayers’ payments as well as how they make payments to others.

For 2026, the IRS made inflation-based adjustments of 4% for the lowest of the seven-tiered bracket system and 2.3% for ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Lea Uradu, J.D., is a Maryland state registered tax preparer, state-certified notary public, ...

The IRS has announced that paper tax refund checks for individual taxpayers will be phased out beginning on September 30, 2025. Payments are next in line—but there is some breathing room.

The Treasury Department is resuming public meetings for a federal advisory committee for the IRS, and is no longer examining the panel’s members, according to an email obtained by POLITICO. On ...

The Internal Revenue Service reminds individuals who filed extensions for tax year 2024 that their tax returns are due tomorrow, Oct. 15, 2025. Further, the agency reminds taxpayers that the current ...

What do increased fraud, significant costs and operational inefficiencies all have in common? Paper checks, or, at least, those were the reasons cited when President Donald Trump issued an executive ...

Rajeev Dhir is a writer with 10+ years of experience as a journalist with a background in broadcast, print, and digital newsrooms. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, ...