Urban Servant: Funny Twist to the IRS Adoption Tax Refunds ...
by dorothy
Last night I faxed over the timeline of our placements/adoptions on a handy-dandy excel spread sheet so that she could physically see the overlap and muddle that 8 adoptions in 10 years created for the rolling credit turned refund. Good news is that the IRS has truly started moving the 8839 Adoption Refunds for several of my readers. On our own front, this week I identified the particular confusion that our family created on the 8839's with our Tax Advocate. Hopefully, with that in hand, she will be calling us back sometime early next week so that I can send her the last documents she needs and we can get out of the 'pending' (One in the $3000 range another $24,000) Now they face the quandary of how to return this extra money to the IRS without causing a huge tailspin of chaos....
The important thing is to look at the total number of tax returns filed, which the report suggests is about 1.5%. What you see underneath that is some big shift towards electronic filing, whether it came in through a tax store, a pro, a CPA or digital.
A large refund that's not tied to a significant life event (adoption or purchase of a new home, for example) might indicate that a review of your form W-4 is in order. If you're on extension, you have five months left to get your return to the IRS,
The Gordons are among many families waiting for the adoption tax credit portion of the federal tax refund. Several parents who were interviewed by the Gazette for the April 14 story said they had not received their adoption tax credit, which provides
Sent IRS Tax Return...Paper Filed...How Long to Get Refund?
Feb 14, 2011 by Kristi | Posted in United States
How long does it TRULY take someone to receive their tax refund when filing by paper instead of e-file?
I would love to hear from people who have paper filed in the not too distant past who can give me an idea of how long we're going to
A: We had to file by paper last year, due to a corrupt ex employer and no w-2. We mailed it on Feb. 16 and received the refund by direct deposit on March 4th.
I would stress though that everyone's return is different, your wait time could
Adoption tax credit, should I be worried?
Mar 01, 2011 by Kristi | Posted in United States
Where's my refund is still not showing any sort of status update for our return.
We paper filed on February 15 (in their hands on that date, per delivery confirmation). Others I have seen that filed with this credit got WMR updates within
A: Kristi, there was a backlog of tax returns for 2/14. 4 weeks would not be unusual for any paper return.
Second, you had the adoption credit, a new paper only issue. That could easily cause it's own delays.
How long does it take to get a tax refund on a paper filed return?
Jan 17, 2011 by Kristi | Posted in United States
It looks like I'm going to have to file a paper return this year because of changes to the adoption tax credit.
Assuming I mail this via Priority Mail, how long does it typically take to process a paper return? I've never done this before,
A: Mailing the paper return at this time will not speed this process up because for the tax form 8839 for 2010 tax year will NOT be available for a while and when does become available probably after the middle of February you may even be able to efile it
A large refund that's not tied to a significant life event (adoption or purchase of a new home, for example) might indicate that a review of your form W-4 is in order. If you're on extension, you have five months left to get your return to the IRS,
The Gordons are among many families waiting for the adoption tax credit portion of the federal tax refund. Several parents who were interviewed by the Gazette for the April 14 story said they had not received their adoption tax credit, which provides
