IRS Refund Alert!   Recently we’ve started hearing stories of a few taxpayers, both individuals and businesses, receiving IRS tax refund checks unexpectedly.  Often the amounts are unusually large, and sometimes the payee name doesn’t even match what was used on the tax return (eg, filing as “Robert” but the check is made out to

In August, President Trump signed an Executive Order to defer withholding and deposit of the employee’s share of Social Security tax, starting September 1st and continuing through December 31st.  The order does not affect income or Medicare tax withholding, nor the employer’s share of Social Security, just the half that is normally withheld from employees’

In certain cases when income tax refunds are delayed, IRS is required to pay interest on those refunds.  The exact rules about when this applies can get complicated, but in very broad terms, anyone who received (or will receive) a 2019 tax refund after the end of May will also be paid interest.  IRS began