Millions of households that hustled to get their tax returns to the IRS early could be waiting until sometime in March for their refunds.
If you’re claiming the additional child tax credit or the earned income tax credit, the IRS cannot issue your refund before mid-February. An anti-fraud law requires the agency to use that additional time to review those returns in an effort to prevent refunds from being issued to scammers.
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