Taxpayers May Be Eligible for Significant Tax Refunds – If They Act by July 10

butvacuum•about 2 hours ago

I'll save everybody else 120s: if you didn't get penalized for filing your taxes late during covid, move on.

carlivar•15 minutes ago

It seems to also argue that we all have claims for lost interest on what we paid to the IRS during the period in question, but that's a stretch. I am getting Wesley Snipes tax advisor vibes here and will move along.

MilnerRoute•about 1 hour ago

It's not just if you filed late. It also says payments "due any time within that window were not late until after July 10, 2023."

So for example, if you were a contractor who paid your taxes on April 15 (rather than making quarterly payments).

nozzlegear•12 minutes ago

Shit, that was me. I never pay my quarterly payments, it's easier (for me) to let the government send me a bill lol.

dawnerd•5 minutes ago

Used to do the same, realized the penalty was so minor compared to my time filing quarterly.

londons_explore•about 1 hour ago

> Without IRS or congressional action, outcomes may unfairly favor the “well advised” over the “unaware.”

Part of the governments job should be to make sure those with expensive advisors do not end up much better off than those who do their own taxes with little knowledge of tax law.

The purpose of taxes is not to tax the dumb extra.

SoftTalker•23 minutes ago

> For COVID-19, a federal disaster declaration was in effect from January 20, 2020, through May 11, 2023. [...] As noted, tens of millions of taxpayers have been assessed penalties or interest for late filings or payments during these years.

I'm a little surprised that many people are late with their tax filings.

mk12•about 1 hour ago

> A Practical Challenge: Paper Is Still the IRS’s Kryptonite

Please just give us the prompt.

SoftTalker•26 minutes ago

I still file my tax returns on paper, via certified mail.

bsimpson•about 1 hour ago

I have a vague recollection of being charged a penalty I didn't agree with and arguing with the IRS about it during the pandemic.

I couldn't tell you what or how much it was for now though.

tekla•about 2 hours ago

https://www.taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov

I can't tell if this is trying to seem fake.

caymanjim•about 1 hour ago

Seriously. This reads like self-promotion of a bad YouTube channel or something. It's amateurish, full of self-aggrandizement and opinions. This has no place coming from our gov't.

tzs•33 minutes ago

What seems fake about it?

tekla•23 minutes ago

Compare this site to the base domain.

https://www.irs.gov/

Do you think it looks official? Or does it look like someone spent $10 on a 3rd world rando to make a site on Wordpress and a spoofed URL and didn't even bother to make it part of the official site.

righthand•about 2 hours ago

> The IRS should quickly develop a means to allow taxpayers to file their claims electronically and implement it immediately. The IRS and taxpayers do not need paper Forms 843 clogging up the system.

ericpauley•about 2 hours ago

This is potentially the most usful AI slop blog post I've ever read.

Taxpayers May Be Eligible for Significant Tax Refunds – If They Act by July 10

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