Checking on IRS Prepayments
Posted by taxguru on March 22, 2010
We have a question on our 2009 tax return organizer asking clients if they received the $250 economic stimulus payments that IRS sent out to some people last year. Rather than checking the Yes or No box, most clients are writing in a question mark, forcing me to guess as to what to enter into the tax program.
This must be a common problem all over the country, with IRS most like receiving a ton of phone calls asking about those payments because they have actually set up a do it yourself automated look-up tool on their website to allow people and their tax preparers (or anyone else who knows their ID numbers, birth-dates and zip-codes) to see if those payments were made.
Since the payments were to individuals, a separate look-up needs to be done for each spouse on a joint tax return.
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