The IRS generally allows you to claim a refund up to three years after filing a return or two years after paying the tax. Other forms of tax relief, such as penalty abatement or debt settlement, have ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...

New tax filers face rising scam risks. A cybersecurity expert explains common IRS impersonation, phishing and fake support schemes to watch for.

Mathews Chacko pleaded guilty to conspiring with employees to defraud the United States by filing false federal tax returns for clients between January 2019 and Oct ...

Taxpayers who receive these notices are being asked to take several steps within 30 days of receipt or face waiting months ...

Jennifer Siebel Newsom receives about $150,000 annually from The Representation Project, her nonprofit group dedicated to fighting gender stereotypes.

A former IRS agent used her two decades of experience to fleece the agency with false tax returns for others in which she pocketed portions of the refunds. Kathleen Mannion, 59, who was charged in ...

Don't let your tax refund linger in a regular savings account. Here's how to earn 4% interest (or more) on it now.

While marijuana may soon be rescheduled under federal law, that doesn’t currently exempt state-legal cannabis businesses from ...

Six years after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, research reveals how the crisis reshaped tax revenues, enforcement, and public policy in the U.S. and beyond.

Key Points ・The average tax refund is $3,742 as of Feb. 27 - up 10.6% from $3,382 at the same point in 2025, according to the IRS. ・New deductions from President Trump’s tax legislation (covering tips ...

Rafael Alvarez, a tax preparer who owned a tax firm in Bronx, New York, orchestrated a massive scheme filing tens of thousands of fraudulent tax returns. As such, it resulted in a $145 million loss ...