Tag: tax refund

If your refund feels smaller than you expected, you're not imagining it being out of step with the news — average refunds are actually up this filing season, which can make an unchanged or lower refund of your own feel especially confusing. Nationally, the average federal refund reached $3,397 as…
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Tax return processing and refund payments continue to be bumpy this year given IRS budget cuts and introduction of several tax changes under Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB). The IRS started the 2026 season roughly 2 million returns behind on backlog, and a February 2026 Treasury Inspector General report…
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