IR-2026-16, Jan. 28, 2026 WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service encourages taxpayers to use online tools and take a few simple steps to prepare for claiming new and expanded tax benefits under the One, Big, Beautiful Bill . Families planning to claim the Child Tax Credit, the Adoption Credit, or pay for educational expenses should review these changes before filing. Refund timing for early EITC/ACTC filers Most early filing taxpayers who claim the Earned Income Tax Credi

IR-2026-12, Jan. 26, 2026 WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today opened the 2026 tax filing season and began accepting and processing federal individual income tax returns for tax year 2025. The IRS expects about 164 million individual tax returns for tax year 2025 to be filed ahead of the Wednesday, April 15, federal deadline. Taxpayers can find a range of tools and filing options on IRS.gov to help them prepare and file their returns. “As America celebrates its 25

IR-2026-09, Jan. 16, 2026 WASHINGTON — The Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service today confirmed that supplemental basic allowance for housing payments made to members of the uniformed services in December 2025 are not to be included in income by those who received the payments; they are not taxable. In the One, Big, Beautiful Bill enacted last July, Congress appropriated $2.9 billion to supplement the basic allowance for housing payable to members of th

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