well, if you were hoping to speed up your tax refund this year, you may want to put the pencil down. the irs is actually telling some filers to wait a bit longer before sending their return to uncle sam. and caroline shively explains why. julie, if you just can t wait to pay your taxes and are itching to write that check to the irs early, you re a lot this year and that means there goes the early refund check and you have congress to thank for the delay because lawmakers waited until december to make tax law changes and officials with the internal revenue say filers won t be able to send in until mid to late february and means that irs auditors need time to retrain the systems. and here are the folks delayed. if you itemize deductions on schedule a, including charitable donations and and
year. caroline shively is on to tell us more about that and why, careline? reporter: well, if you can t wait to pay your taxes and are itching to write the check to the i.r.s. early, there goes your early refund check. you have congress to thank for the delay. because lawmakers waited until december to make tax law change changes. they won t be able to send in their taxes in february. the last-minute changes mean auditors need time to reprogram the processing business. it affects the paper filing as well as electronic ones. here is the delay. do you itemize deductions on schedule a, including the charitable donations, mortgage interest and medical expenses? if you file deduction for tuition and fees up to $4,000. and also if you are a k-12 teacher. deducting for out-of-pocket classroom expenses. the i.r.s. has all the specifics posted on the i.r.s.gov including an updated copy of the schedule a and the local and state sales tax table. the i.r.s. commissioner says
wounding a deputy. this is the worst day in my 24 years as a sheriff in the county. a police officer was wounded in a hail of gunfire and the shooter was killed. it is unclear if he was killed by authorities or took his own life. not so fast, message of i.r.s. for those who file their taxes early. early filers may have to wait longer to get the refund. carrolline shively has more. high to you, shannon. americans will say goodbye early refund check and thank you congress . some will not be able to send in returns early because lawmakers waited until december to make tax law changes. some filers will not be able to send in taxes until mid to late february. they need time to reprogram the system. that affects paper and
hamburg, germany. rallies to the west of us, rallies to the right. what some have caught an anti-tea party rally. a coalition of liberal and progressive groups promising to get out the vote next month and keep democrats in control of congress. and verizon wireless says it will refund about 15 million of its customers because the company incorrectly charged them for data use. in most cases, the refunds range from $2 to $6. the money will be paid back in the next two months. if you re not an account holder, you ll get a refund check. well, new developments this morning in the tragic death of the rutgers university student who took his own life after discovering that his roommate had secretly taped his intimate moments with another male and put it online. hundreds of students attended a candle light vigil for tyler clementi last night. not only causing a ripple effect across campus on rutgers, but across the country. stephanie elam joins us with more on that this morning.
rth of overcharges, 4,000 property owners affected. that breaks down to an average refund check of $725. that s a big deal in this city. 17,000 people here live below the poverty line. they struggle to get by here, and that was a big deal in one of the many ways that city officials were trying to pad their six-figure salaries and inflading sewer rates in addition to what they were doing, and every month just a few hundred feet from where i stand, they have a soup kitchen wher the give kes dents free food to get by over a period of just a few weeks. i know the town well, and that s why people were outraged. a lot of people wanted money and also wanted to city officials to be aeld accountable. what s going on with the investigations and whether or not thesfat cats, if you will, will get some come up pans for this?