New tax laws, benefit questions and IRS challenges could delay your refund. How to file fast, track your money ...

As the IRS moves toward digital-only payments under a Trump-era executive order, taxpayers should expect changes in how ...

The IRS is now instructing most Americans to add direct deposit information to receive their refunds.

Claims about new stimulus checks, IRS direct deposits, relief payments and tariff dividends spread throughout 2025 — and they ...

The IRS is moving away from paper refund checks. Taxpayers should include their bank account information on their 2025 tax ...

If you've filed your federal tax return, here's how to check the status of your refund.

Eager to find out when your tax return refunds will hit your bank account? Here's when you might expect to receive it and how ...

Back in September, the IRS quietly started phasing out paper refund checks for individual taxpayers. President Trump started it all back in March 2025 with an executive order.

The IRS phased out paper refund checks and will freeze payments when direct deposit fails. With average refunds projected at ...

According to the agency, the change is designed to protect taxpayers since paper checks are “over 16 times more likely to be lost, stolen, altered, or delayed than electronic payments.” Direct deposit ...

The IRS expects most refunds for the Earned Income Tax Credit, the Child Tax Credit and the Additional Child Tax Credit to be ...

In California, the deadline to file state and federal income tax returns is April 15.