IRS Issues ‘Final Reminder’ to Claim Certain Tax Refunds

Published on May 12, 2024

About 1 million Americans have until the end of this week to file their 2020 taxes in order to get a refund, according to a recent  Internal Revenue Service (IRS) news release. Some $1 billion in unclaimed refunds from that tax year are outstanding and if people don’t act, those refunds will become the property of the Treasury Department, the IRS said on May 6. The deadline for people to file their outstanding 2020 taxes is Friday, May 17, by 11:59 p.m. The IRS had pushed back the tax deadline to file the 2020 refunds to May 17, 2021. It means that the normal, three-year-long window for filing those returns will close on Friday....