{"id":367,"date":"2016-06-13T12:43:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T20:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/maximize-your-refund-smart-way"},"modified":"2025-02-07T08:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T16:23:19","slug":"maximize-your-refund-smart-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/maximize-your-refund-smart-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Maximize Your Refund the Smart Way [Infographic]"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Tips for Spending Your Tax Refund<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There it is,\u00a0sitting in your account just <em>begging<\/em> you to spend it. It\u2019s like when you were a kid and you found a dollar on the sidewalk \u2013\u00a0the possibilities seem endless!<\/p>\n<p>No matter how big the dollar number is, you can\u2019t help but feel that little thrill of excitement when you get your tax return. Perhaps it\u2019s the idea that now you can finally buy that gadget you\u2019ve had your eye on. Or maybe it\u2019s the thought that on this one day out of the year, the government actually owed <em>you<\/em> something.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the source of your thrill, the next step is to figure out what to do with this sudden influx of cash. There are so many options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;\">Go all out and take that trip to Maui you always wanted to take?<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;\">Use it as a down payment on a car, home, or other big purchase?<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;\">Enroll in that art class you\u2019ve always wanted to join?<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;\">Sock some of it away for the future?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We\u2019ve put together the infographic below with some advice from financial experts to help you figure out how to best ways to maximize your tax refund. Let us know what you decide \u2013 we\u2019d love to hear from you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tips for Spending Your Tax Refund &nbsp; There it is,\u00a0sitting in your account just begging you to spend it. It\u2019s like when you were a kid and you found a dollar on the sidewalk \u2013\u00a0the possibilities seem endless! No matter how big the dollar number is, you can\u2019t help but feel that little thrill of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tax-refunds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8457,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/8457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}