{"id":10759,"date":"2024-05-15T12:17:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T19:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/?p=10759"},"modified":"2024-05-15T12:17:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T19:17:33","slug":"the-irs-just-became-1-billion-dollars-richer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/the-irs-just-became-1-billion-dollars-richer\/","title":{"rendered":"The IRS Just Became 1 Billion Dollars Richer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April, the IRS warned nearly 1 million taxpayers that they may be leaving more than $1 billion on the table because they never filed a 2020 return.<\/p>\n<p>Taxpayers typically have three years to file and claim tax refunds. The typical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/tax-season-deadlines-when-to-file-and-expect-refund\/\">April 15th deadline<\/a> to claim old refunds was postponed to May 17, 2024 due to the general tax filing extension period that was allowed during the Covid epidemic of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>There is still time for taxpayers that haven\u2019t filed for 2021 or 2022 and their refunds are currently withheld. Taxpayers can request their W-2, 1098, 1099 or 5498 from their employers or banks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/unfiled-tax-returns\/\">How to begin filing unfiled tax returns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A free wage and income transcript can be ordered at IRS.gov using the &#8220;Get Transcript Online&#8221; tool for people who need to submit a return.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Get IRS Transcripts Online\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NuS_YLCcXec\" width=\"820\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Sources<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NuS_YLCcXec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">How to Get IRS Transcripts Online<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@eataxresolutions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">EA Tax Resolutions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April, the IRS warned nearly 1 million taxpayers that they may be leaving more than $1 billion on the table because they never filed a 2020 return. Taxpayers typically have three years to file and claim tax refunds. The typical April 15th deadline to claim old refunds was postponed to May 17, 2024 due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tax-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10762,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759\/revisions\/10762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}