Well, to be fair when they say the "big majority" like 80% are getting their money fast, that is true. Most people get refunds and use DD. The IRS is only automatically paying by DD when you've done that on a tax return only or you're collecting SS or SSI.

If you gave them you bank info in order to pay them, that's irrelevant. The tax return system is completely segregated from other systems for security reasons so this new payment system doesn't know from any other sources of that info. As you can imagine identify theft and tax return fraud is huge. And even then with the rush to get this going I would be surprised if there isn't opportunity some way, some how for hacking.

The latest I've heard is even SS and SSI recipients are getting their deposits near the end of the month so maybe 10 days from now, the payments based on the tax returns are going out first.

One more little wrinkle, I have a client who's trying to get paid off his 2018 return and the portal keeps saying no information available or something like that. I checked that on some tax forums and wow, it's an epidemic. Nobody is getting through if it's for 2018. I'm hearing it's because they haven't linked up the 2018 data yet so they're only paying off of the 2019 returns and 2018 data should be ready in a few more days. It would have been nice if they had simply said that on the website. I can't really say that's actually true though but my source is in DC so maybe...

Bob

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