Wondering when your coronavirus stimulus check will arrive? You’re not alone. The IRS said Saturday the first round of payments have been delivered and more are on the way. Reports that the $1,200 federal stimulus checks would begin arriving soon prompted people to frantically check their online bank balances —...
Coronavirus Stimulus Checks ‘Pending.’ How to Make Sure You Get Yours.
Wondering when your coronavirus stimulus check will arrive? You’re not alone. Reports that $1,200 federal stimulus checks would begin arriving this week have prompted people to frantically check their online bank balances — sometimes several times an hour. According to the Twitter hastag #Stimuluscheck, there's a lot of anxiety, and...
Coronavirus Closes Fresno IRS Offices. Employees to Work at Home.
Workers at the Internal Revenue Service offices in Fresno were told that all buildings will close at noon Friday and stay closed until further notice during the coronavirus outbreak. In an email to IRS employees, Craig Stevens, the senior commissioner's representative for Fresno, said that employees are expected to work...
Administration Announces 90-Day Delay for Many Tax Payments
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration says individuals and businesses will be allowed to delay paying their 2019 tax bills for 90 days past the usual April 15 deadline. The extension announced Tuesday is an effort to inject up to $300 billion into the economy at a time when the coronavirus...
‘Federal Government Really Jacked Us’: How Trump’s Tax Cuts Are Working out for Californians
For communications professor Jason Jarvis and his wife, Jun, California just got more expensive. The Inglewood couple, who last year paid $16,000 in state and local taxes, were only able to deduct $10,000 of it from their federal taxes this year. The federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act—signed last year...
Historic Building With 'G' Sign Will Welcome College District Staff
By mid-June, employees with State Center Community College District will begin moving into the historic Guarantee Building in downtown Fresno, district officials say. Interior renovation work is nearing completion on the 12-story structure, which the district purchased for $10.6 million in 2018. Eventually, all of the district's leadership team and their...
IRS Recalling 46,000 Workers to Handle Taxes
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service is recalling about 46,000 of its employees furloughed by the government shutdown — nearly 60 percent of its workforce — to handle tax returns and pay out refunds. The employees won't be paid. With the official start of the tax filing season coming Jan....
You Have Two Extra Days to Pay Your Taxes. And Take This Quiz.
“Tax Day,” the day when U.S. individual tax returns are due, is usually April 15. This year Americans get until April 17 to file their returns because April 15 falls on a Sunday and April 16 is Emancipation Day in Washington, marking President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Compensated Emancipation...