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 “Bob”).  We haven’t heard yet whether the checks are fake, or something went haywire in the IRS system to generate them.  In any event, if you receive such a check, do NOT deposit it unless you can get positive confirmation that the refund is actually correct.  Contact us or the IRS to get clarification, and if it was in fact issued erroneously, IRS will provide instructions about how to return it.