Refund Digitization Push Leaves Some Taxpayers Behind: BGOV Tax

IRS Digitization Push Delays Refunds for Some

Trump’s executive order to end most paper refund checks has been successful. Roughly 78.5 million taxpayers received refunds via direct deposit, up 10% from last year, according to the latest numbers from the IRS. But that rapid push has come at a cost, Bloomberg Tax’s Chris Cioffi reports.

In the runup to April 15, at least 2 million taxpayers had received letters from the IRS explaining that they failed to list a bank account number on their return, or the information they included was incorrect, according to IRS information provided to ...