Category: Changes and Deadlines

County governments in Tennessee, New York, and West Virginia are warning property owners that February 28 is the last day to pay the prior year’s taxes without triggering interest and penalties. The deadline, which effectively makes March 1 the delinquency date in several states, has prompted official notices from local trustees and state tax agencies…

The Florida House of Representatives passed a joint resolution on February 19, 2026, proposing a constitutional amendment that would exempt homestead properties from most non-school property taxes, sending the measure to the Senate with an 80-30 vote. The joint resolution, formally titled “Elimination of Non-school Property for Homesteads,” would exempt homestead property from ad valorem…

California Assembly Republicans introduced legislation to freeze the state’s motor vehicle fuel tax for a full year, targeting the $0.61 per gallon excise rate that hits drivers at the pump. Assemblyman Jeff Gonzalez and Republican coauthors introduced AB 1745, which would suspend the state excise tax on gasoline for one year. The bill arrives as…

The IRS has released a wave of inflation-adjusted tax parameters for 2026, shaped in part by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025, and the changes create a narrow window for taxpayers to act before the April 15 filing deadline. Higher contribution limits for retirement accounts and health savings accounts, a bumped-up business mileage…

Tipped workers across the United States could see a new tax break under the No Tax on Tips Act, which creates an above-the-line deduction allowing eligible employees and self-employed individuals to subtract up to $25,000 in qualified tips from their taxable income. The deduction applies to tax years 2025 through 2028, meaning the first returns…

The IRS opened the 2026 tax filing season on January 26, expecting roughly 164 million individual returns, but early processing numbers and a federal watchdog report suggest refund delays could hit harder than usual this year. For the week ending February 6, returns processed fell 12.3% compared with the same period last year, even as…

The Internal Revenue Service began sending automatic payments of up to $1,400 each to roughly 1 million taxpayers who filed 2021 returns but failed to claim the Recovery Rebate Credit they were owed. Those payments, part of a program totaling approximately $2.4 billion, started going out in December 2024 and were expected to arrive by…

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act made three popular tax breaks unavailable after 2025, raising effective tax burdens for many families, workers, and small business owners. The Internal Revenue Service confirmed in its tax year 2026 inflation adjustments that personal exemptions remain at zero for tax year 2026. What the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs…

The Trump administration is calling the 2026 tax filing season the largest in U.S. history for refunds, and early IRS data backs up at least part of that claim. As millions of Americans file returns for tax year 2025, the average refund check has jumped noticeably compared to the prior year, driven by inflation adjustments…

Thousands of taxpayers face the prospect of refiling their federal returns after a series of IRS processing failures, social media-driven filing errors, and e-file rejections created a backlog that federal watchdogs say is affecting millions of people. With the 2025 filing season set to begin on January 27 and the April 15 deadline looming, the…