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April 4, 2023 | 4:02 PM

How a Pa. Latina business owner helps newer immigrants navigate their taxes

Undocumented immigrants pay billions in taxes each year, but still face many barriers that deter them from reporting their income, like a lack of translation services and misinformation about the process of filing taxes.

By Gabriela Martínez/WITF
April 4, 2023 | 12:10 PM

Cómo una empresaria latina de Pensilvania está ayudando a las personas hispanohablantes durante la temporada de impuestos

Aunque aportan billones de dólares en impuestos estatales y federales anualmente, los inmigrantes aún enfrentan muchas barreras que los disuaden de reportar sus ingresos, como la falta de servicios de traducción y la desinformación sobre el proceso de presentación de impuestos.

By Gabriela Martínez/WITF
February 11, 2023 | 6:51 AM

IRS won’t tax most relief payments made by states last year

The states where the relief checks do not have to be reported by taxpayers include Pennsylvania

By David Sharp/The Associated Press

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August 15, 2022 | 3:55 PM

The IRS just got $80 billion to beef up. A big goal? Going after rich tax dodgers

As part of the massive climate and health care bill passed by the House on Friday, the tax collection agency is set to receive $80 billion over the next decade.

By Scott Horsley/NPR
January 29, 2022 | 9:44 AM

Claiming COVID costs, and 4 other questions about filing your taxes this year

It’s time to file your tax returns, and the 2022 filing season promises to be different from recent years’.

By Bill Chappell/NPR
June 28, 2021 | 8:05 AM

With text messages, flyers and outreach to social service groups, advocates push to get the word out on child tax credit payments

The expanded credit has been touted as a having the potential to cut U.S. child poverty in half — but only if eligible families sign up.

By Kate Giammarise/WESA
June 15, 2021 | 7:39 AM

IRS launches new online sign-up for advance child tax credits

Advocates had been pushing for a simplified process to make sure people who do not file taxes, for example because they rely on disability payments or earn too little income, can still access the program when eligible.
By Laura Benshoff/WHYY
March 29, 2021 | 7:49 AM

Filing taxes could help low-income people get stimulus payments

The IRS is in the midst of sending people $1,400 for its third round of COVID-19-related stimulus payments; earlier rounds last year and earlier this year were for $1,200 and $600.
By Kate Giammarise/WESA
March 17, 2021 | 4:26 PM

IRS expected to push back tax-filing deadline

If you’ve been putting off filing your tax return this year, here’s some good news. The IRS is expected to delay the filing deadline by another month.

By Brian Naylor/NPR
March 13, 2021 | 10:25 AM

Coronavirus Relief Bill is a ‘heavy lift’ for already-strained IRS

The Internal Revenue Service has the job of implementing the coronavirus relief package, and they’ve had a rough decade or so. Budgets were slashed, there was a hiring freeze and a loss of workers. Still, the work keeps coming.

By Brian Naylor/NPR
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