Tax Guru – Ker$tetter Letter

For those individuals who haven’t provided IRS with their personal bank account info to allow direct deposits of the up to $1,200 per person stimulus checks, IRS has to send out paper checks via the USPS.

With millions of such checks required, this will be taking a number of months.  Rather than mailing them in random order, IRS is doing so based on the amount of AGI (Adjusted Gross Income) that was reported on 2018 or 2019 1040s.  This begins with the lowest income individuals, which does make a lot of sense in this time of financial crisis, and increases by $10,000 each week

Here is the current IRS mailing schedule, courtesy of Forbes:

Here is the planned weekly schedule for the IRS to mail stimulus checks based on annual adjusted gross income, as first reported by The Washington Post. All dates represent the “week ending” (for example, the week ending April 24) and the IRS could change this schedule at any time.

Less than $10,000: April 24

$10,001 – $20,000: May 1

$20,001 – $30,000: May 8

$30,001 – $40,000: May 15

$40,001 – $50,000: May 22

$50,001 – $60,000: May 29

$60,001 – $70,000: June 5

$70,001 – $80,000: June 12

$80,001 – $90,000: June 19

$90,001 – $100,000: June 26

$100,001 – $110,000: July 3

$110,001 – $120,000: July 10

$120,001 – $130,000: July 17

$130,001 – $140,000: July 24

$140,001 – $150,000: July 31

$150,001 – $160,000: August 7

$160,001 – $170,000: August 14

$170,001 – $180,000: August 21

$180,001 – $190,000: August 28

$190,001 – $198,000: September 4

Remaining checks: September 11