01/12/2022
Upcoming tax season thoughts:
The following is critical to tax preparation and removing a great risk of holding up your refunds.
Watch for a few letters from IRS: Letter 6475 and letter 6419 to be mailed in January.
Letter 6475 will state the amount received for the Economic Impact Payment (ie Stimulus Checks). Yes, your tax professional needs this information and no, it is not taxable.
Letter 6419 is for those that received the Advanced Child Tax Credit payments. If you did not opt out of these advance payments over the summer, you should receive this letter if you have littles that qualify you for the child tax credit. (17 and under). If you do not have children, you will not receive this letter.
It is very important to provide these letters with all your other tax related information. If you don't receive them, you can go to the IRS website and create an account to pull your transcripts.
Please do not rely on your memory for the amounts received. Getting it wrong will hold up processing of your return and your refund if one is due.
Start a folder now and place all of that important tax information in it as you receive it. And, please, open those envelopes, take the contents out, look at them. Keep the contents. Throw away the envelopes!
IR-2021-255, December 22, 2021 — The Internal Revenue Service announced today that it will issue information letters to Advance Child Tax Credit recipients starting in December and to recipients of the third round of the Economic Impact Payments at the end of January. Using this information when p...