{"id":6778,"date":"2026-01-28T12:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/?p=6778"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:01:16","slug":"irs-begins-accepting-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/irs-begins-accepting-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS begins accepting returns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Internal Revenue Service opened the 2026 tax filing season this week, accepting and processing returns for the 2025 tax year. As a result of the One Big Beautiful Bill signed into law July 4 and its significant tax law changes, refunds are expected to increase for many Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/newsroom\/irs-opens-2026-filing-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IRS expects approximately 164 million returns<\/a> to be filed ahead of the April 15 deadline. The IRS urges taxpayers to file electronically, an option that celebrates its 40<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJust as we did back in 1986, today the IRS encourages taxpayers to speed the processing of their returns by using e-file, instead of paper. And to speed the processing of any refund due, we also encourage the use of direct deposit,\u201d said IRS Chief Executive Officer Frank J. Bisignano in a press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IRS began phasing out paper tax refund checks Sept. 30, 2025. With direct deposit, most refunds are issued in less than 21 days, according to the IRS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tax changes for this year as part of the OBBB, include an increase of the standard deduction from $14,600 to $15,750 for single filers and $29,200 to $31,500 for married, filing jointly taxpayers. The child tax credit increased $200 to $2,200. The earned income tax credit was adjusted with taxpayers with incomes under $70,000 being eligible. Tipped employees can deduct up to $25,000 tax free. Taxpayers can deduct up to $12,500 in overtime earnings ($25,000 for married jointly filers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Internal Revenue Service opened the 2026 tax filing season this week, accepting and processing returns for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-industry","8":"cs-entry","9":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}