The agency has already notified close to 11 million American citizens that due to a math problem in their stimulus check payments, they might owe a lot more in taxes. The taxpayers were sent this letter last summer, and according to the agency it is still being delivered.
As reported by The Taxpayer Advocate Service, around 7.4 million of the errors in their tax returns have led the agency to communicate to people about their overpayments. This involves the majority of the payments that are construed as a part of the stimulus payments sent from 2020. The letters from the IRS have explained to the taxpayers about the calculation and what could be different.
IRS Issues Error Notices For Stimulus Check Payments
The IRS has also mentioned that every individual would be given 60 days to dispute any error that is mentioned in their tax return, but according to the Taxpayer Advocate Service, close to 5 million taxpayers were informed about these error notices that completely failed to speak about the 60-day time period.
As reported by Fast Company, the majority of the individuals who received the notice turned out to be people who had claimed the Stimulus check recovery rebate credit. This credit will allow the individual to claim their payment on the tax return if they haven’t already received it before they filed the taxes.
The claim which is possible will be enacted for the stimulus check payments that were issued the previous year. In a large majority of all the cases, it was reported, the errors in math letters were quite possibly informing people that they hadn’t been deemed eligible for a recovery rebate credit like they had previously opted for the amount of rebate would definitely be much smaller.
The federal government has sent around three different stimulus check payments, which were made to individuals that had an annual income between $75,000 and $150,000 if they were married, and then went on to file their taxes jointly.
