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The Child Tax Credit Has a Big Problem The bill indicates that only one parent can claim the child tax credit for any child if they share joint custody, according to Elaine Maag, a principal research associate at the Tax Policy Center. The Biden administration announced Monday that the advance child tax credit payments would start to arrive on July 15 through December for families who are eligible. Nearly 39 million families are expected to receive the monthly payment in July, the IRS said. ...

Is the U.S. Economy Booming or Headed for Another Rough Patch? Total retail sales were flat last month after experiencing a jump in March, the Commerce Department reported last week, as shoppers continued spending their latest round of government-stimulus money. Where are things headed for the long term?  Total retail sales were flat last month after experiencing a jump in March, the Commerce Department reported last week, as shoppers continued spending their latest round of government-st...

Those Americans who have not received stimulus payments, but who still believe are eligible for one, likely fall into one of two categories.

What happens if parents don’t file taxes by the May 17 filing deadline? Congress has authorized massive child tax credits as part of President Joe Biden’s rescue package that was passed in March, with payments beginning to hit the pockets of American families in July. The Biden administration announced Monday that the Internal Revenue Service will send the monthly child tax credit payments on the 15th of the month, starting in July and lasting until December, where families could receive...

In fact, nearly 2.2 million people already have signed the petition that calls for $2,000 recurring monthly stimulus checks.

The stimulus money cannot legally be used to subsidize new state tax cuts. Heres What You Need to Remember: CNBC lists legal uses for the money by state and local governments as “supporting public health expenditures, addressing the negative economic impact caused by Covid-19, replacing lost public-sector revenue or investing in water, sewer and broadband infrastructure.” The Treasury Department earlier this week officially launched the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds, a...

This week, after nearly completing the distribution of the March 2021 $1400 stimulus checks, the IRS has made another announcement: it is sending out another series of refunds to an additional 10 million people.

More than 20 million Americans received text messages that directed them to several fraud U.S. government websites, authorities in Indonesia said.

Can You Claim Past Stimulus Checks by Filing a Tax Extension? It appears that every week over the past couple of months, there have been dozens of reports of struggling Americans saying that they haven’t been paid by the U.S. government—not even from the first two rounds of stimulus. What can you do about it?  The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department to date have already disbursed nearly $390 billion worth of coronavirusstimulus checks to financially hurt Americans. But it ...

This year, however, it’s especially important that parents file their taxes on time. “This year the government is going to prepay the child tax credit,” Timothy Ness, the owner of Ness Tax & Bookkeeping, told KELO-TV, a local station based out of Sioux Falls, S.D. Ness added, “You’ll start to see checks of around $300 probably direct deposited on your account to prepay a credit that normally appears on your tax return.” President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan boosted the child...