Four days ago, the IRS issued an official notice, warning over a million Americans across the country that time is running out for them to claim their 2019 refunds. And a lot of money is on the line here: there is currently $1.5 billion of these refund checks that have yet to be claimed. If people don’t claim their own hard-earned money by July 15, the U.S. government will be able to hold on to $1.5 billion that it should have returned to us.
However, if you live in California and you recently received a letter from the IRS saying that you owe them money, the letter might have contained incorrect information. Specifically, these were CP-14 letters, which are notices telling taxpayers that they owe money on unpaid taxes. According to a document from the IRS, a good number of these notices have an incorrect payment date listed on them….