The Internal Revenue Service has begun accepting tax returns as the 2023 tax filing season begins. The deadline for federal individual returns this year is April 18.
However, storm victims in Alabama, California and Georgia storm victims have a May 15 deadline for filing federal individual and business tax returns and make tax payments.
The agency notes it cannot issue refunds for returns involving the Earned Income Tax Credit or Additional Child Tax Credit before mid-February to give it extra time to prevent fraudulent refunds.
The IRS expects most of these refunds will be available in taxpayer bank accounts or debit cards by February 28
This year’s tax deadline is April 18 because April 15 is on a weekend and the Emancipation Day holiday in Washington D.C. is on Monday, April 17.
Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards. Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that. A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind