{"id":207470,"date":"2026-03-26T21:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/207470\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T21:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:41:08","slug":"tax-tips-how-to-get-a-faster-refund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/207470\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax tips: How to get a faster refund"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tips <\/p>\n

TAMPA, Fla. – If the IRS owes you money, you want it as fast as possible. However, the IRS rejected nearly 18 million e-filed returns in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most of those delays came down to basic, easily avoidable errors that held up taxpayers’ money for weeks or months.<\/p>\n

Timeline:<\/p>\n

Starting in September 2025, the IRS began discontinuing paper refund checks. They are being completely phased out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you don’t provide direct deposit information on your return, you can expect significant delays in getting your refund.<\/p>\n

What you can do:<\/p>\n

To avoid a delayed refund (or a potential audit), avoid these three common mistakes:<\/p>\n

Check Social Security Numbers: Missing just one digit for yourself, your spouse, or your dependents will hold up processing.Include all W-2s and 1099s: The IRS already has this information on file. If your return doesn’t match their records, it will be flagged.Verify Bank Information: Double-check your bank routing number and personal account number for direct deposit. <\/p>\n

The Source: Data on rejected tax returns comes from the National Taxpayer Advocate\u2019s 2024 report. Information regarding the phase-out of paper checks is based on IRS announcements and recent federal executive orders.<\/p>\n

Personal Finance<\/a>Money<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. – If the IRS owes you money, you want it as fast as possible. However, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[558,2159,115,8344,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-207470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-business","tag-money","tag-news","tag-personal-finance","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}