Tax season

If you’re scrambling to finish your taxes, it’s easy to overlook the forms needed for a complete and accurate return. Here are some of the most common mistakes.

Tax season is here again, and so are the scams that go with it. Consumers lose tens of millions of dollars every year to fraudsters impersonating the IRS. So here are the latest scams, and how to protect yourself. Randy Mac reports for the NBC4 News on Friday April 1, 2022.

With tax season rolling around again, so too are scammers seeking to dupe taxpayers out of their money. Randy Mac reports April 1, 2022.

The IRS is announcing plans to hire 10,000 new workers to help reduce a massive backlog that the Biden administration says will make this tax season the most challenging in history

The White House temporarily took down its Child Tax Credit online tool until the end of this tax season due to confusion the tool has caused.

U.S. taxpayers, brace yourselves because tax filing season starts Monday and you can expect the task to be more cumbersome than usual this year.

This year’s tax filing season will begin on Jan. 24, 17 days earlier than last year

For the first time in history, the federal government has announced that qualifying parents will not have to wait to receive funds from child tax credits annually. Under the new American rescue plan, the IRS will start making monthly payments directly to taxpayers in July. Randy Mac reports for NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on May 17, 2021.

Even though the IRS has moved the tax deadline to next month because of the COVID pandemic, the feds are still urging consumers to get their returns filed as soon as possible.

In normal times, tomorrow, April 15, would be tax day. And while the IRS has moved the deadline to next month because of the pandemic, the feds are still urging consumers to get their returns filed as soon as possible. But this season might be more complicated. Randy Mac reports for the NBC4 News on Wednesday, April 14, 2021.

Come April 15, some Californians could get taxed on unemployment benefits they never requested or received. For nearly a year, hundreds of thousands of Californians forced out of work by the COVID-19 pandemic have relied on unemployment insurance. Like wages — that’s taxable income — and the state employment development department, EDD, is sending 1099G tax forms to anyone they...

What should you do if you get a tax form for benefits you didn’t receive? Randy Mac reported on NBC4 News on Monday, March 8, 2021.

Tax assistance for seniors will still be offered this year at the Indio Senior Center, although it will be done through a “drop off” service due to the coronavirus, it was announced Monday.

More than 50 accounting students at Cal State Long Beach are providing free income tax preparation assistance to families who make $57,000 or less, disabled people, the elderly, students, non-residents and individuals with limited English proficiency, the university announced Tuesday.

Many people are having their groceries delivered these days, and you might be using the Instacart app to get them. The service or delivery fee may seem like a small price to pay for the convenience but the I-Team has learned Instacart might be costing you more than you realize. Consumer investigator Randy Mac reports Feb. 10, 2021.

Tax filing season will start a bit later and look a bit different this year.

Here’s how to deduct your home office expenses during a pandemic on your taxes. Randy Mac reports for NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Jan. 7, 2021. 

A map was published to help Los Angeles residents find tax help ahead of the April 15 deadline. Los Angeles Controller Ron Galperin released the online map Wednesday, listing 22 tax-prep assistance locations of local organizations and resource centers. The map is available below. It’s intended for individuals and households with less than $55,000 in annual earnings and qualify for…

A Glendale-based registered tax preparer is facing federal charges for allegedly defrauding the U.S. Treasury of more than $645,000. Vilen Tavatyan, 31, of Burbank, allegedly ran a scheme between February 2014 and April 2016, in which he prepared federal income tax returns for new clients and included false business expenses or fictitious or inflated deductions. He electronically filed the allegedly…