IRS to Georgians: Don’t File Your Income Taxes, Yet - What to Know

Friday, February 10th, 2023

The Internal Revenue Service is recommending that taxpayers in Georgia hold off on filing their tax returns for 2022 if they received a special tax refund or payment from the state last year.

The IRS issued the guidance Friday due to the agency’s uncertainty about the taxability of the payments. The IRS is deciding now if those $250 and $500 state tax-rebate checks from last year should be declared as income-- income that the feds may want to tax, even though the state of Georgia is not taxing the rebates. 

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