Tax Changes & Deadlines
New tax laws, bracket changes, deduction updates, filing deadlines, refund timelines, and what taxpayers need to know each season.
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Washington seniors and disabled homeowners must apply by December 31 for next year’s property-tax exemption
Washington homeowners who are 61 or older, or retired because of a disability, have until December 31 to apply for the state’s senior and disabled-persons...
The IRS says to photograph or videotape a home’s contents and store copies away from the area at risk, because casualty loss claims depend on proof of value
The IRS tells taxpayers to photograph or videotape the contents of their homes, especially items of greater value, before a disaster hits. It also says...
The IRS gives nine Nebraska counties until February 1 to file, and moves the November 2 payroll return deadline with it
The IRS has pushed back tax deadlines to February 1, 2027, for taxpayers in nine Nebraska counties hit by severe storms that began May 15,...
Indiana veterans rated totally disabled must file State Form 12662 by January 15 to get the full homestead property-tax deduction
Indiana rewrote its property-tax deduction for disabled veterans this year, and the biggest break is not automatic. A veteran with a total disability has to...
The IRS moves Florida storm filing deadlines to February 8
Taxpayers in 27 Florida counties hit by Hurricane Isaias now have until February 8, 2027, to file federal returns and pay taxes that came due...
The IRS says donations to scholarship groups earn a new federal tax credit from January 1, with 30 states opted in so far
Starting January 1, 2027, donations to scholarship groups can earn a new federal tax credit of up to $1,700 for one taxpayer, or up to...
The IRS gives four Wisconsin counties hit by July storms until February 1 to file and pay
The IRS has moved the tax calendar to February 1, 2027 for people and businesses in four Wisconsin counties. Forest, Outagamie, Vilas and Winnebago counties...
Trump’s White House says about 1.8 million Georgia seniors benefit from the new senior deduction, with the average senior expected to pay no federal tax on Social Security
About 1.8 million Georgia seniors benefit from the new federal senior deduction, according to the White House, which also says the average senior is expected...
Up to 23,376 Ohio veterans rated fully disabled by the VA can get back specialty military license plate fees paid since 2019 if they file by Dec. 2
Ohio veterans rated 100% disabled by the Department of Veterans Affairs have until Dec. 2 to file for refunds of the registration taxes and fees...
IRS gives typhoon-hit Rota, Saipan and Tinian taxpayers until February 1 for payroll deadlines
Employers and taxpayers on the islands of Rota, Saipan and Tinian, in the Northern Mariana Islands, have until February 1, 2027, to meet certain quarterly...
The IRS is sending automatic refunds to adoptive families who carried forward unused adoption credits, worth up to $5,000 per child, with most paid by year’s end
The IRS has started sending automatic refunds to more than 50,000 taxpayers who carried forward unused adoption credits from earlier years, and it expects most...
Under Trump’s paper-check phase-out, the IRS gives people holding a CP53E refund notice one chance and 30 days to add a bank account, or a check comes after six weeks
About 4.2 million individual taxpayers received a CP53E notice from the IRS, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration reported in September. The letter means...
The IRS added nine more Indiana counties, including Cass, Grant and Putnam, to storm relief that moves filing and payment deadlines to February 1, 2027
The IRS has added nine more Indiana counties to its storm relief: Cass, Fountain, Grant, Parke, Pike, Putnam, Starke, Vermillion and Warren. Taxpayers in those...
The IRS says taxpayers born before January 2, 1962 may take a senior deduction of up to $6,000, but Social Security can still be taxed above a $25,000 single-filer base
The IRS says taxpayers born before January 2, 1962 may be eligible for an enhanced senior deduction of up to $6,000 on their 2026 returns....
The IRS still had not posted 2027 tax brackets as of October 14
As of October 14, the IRS had not published the 2027 tax brackets, the 2027 standard deduction or any other inflation-adjusted figure for the coming...
Earnings up to $192,300 will be subject to the Social Security payroll tax in 2027, the cap announced alongside the new cost-of-living raise
Social Security will tax wages up to $192,300 in 2027, up from $184,500 this year, a step of $7,800 that the agency announced on October...
The IRS moved federal tax deadlines to February 8, 2027 in 27 counties hit by Hurricane Isaias, past October 15, though not for 2025 balances due April 15
The IRS has pushed a long list of federal tax deadlines to February 8, 2027 for people and businesses in 27 Florida counties struck by...
IRS Free File closes October 15 with an $89,000 income cap on guided software
Free File, the IRS program that lets filers prepare and e-file a federal return at no cost, shuts for 2025 returns on Thursday, October 15,...
Proposed IRS rules would let a seller of qualified farmland spread the tax over four years
Treasury and the IRS have proposed rules that would let someone who sells qualified farmland spread the tax on the gain over four years instead...
The IRS page promising Mississippi storm victims a February 1 deadline carries an August correction limiting its quarterly payroll relief to the July 31 and November 2 deadlines
A note added to the top of the Internal Revenue Service’s Mississippi storm-relief notice on August 21 says the February 1, 2027 extension in one...