ATLANTA,None — The Internal Revenue Service is looking for 4,714 Georgia taxpayers who are due refund checks worth more than $7 million, IRS state spokesman Mark Green said in a Wednesday news release. The checks were returned to the IRS by the U.S. Postal Service due to mailing address errors, Green said.
"We'd like to get this money back to taxpayers as quickly as possible. All we need is an updated address and we can reissue the check," Green said.
Green said the average undeliverable Georgia taxpayer refund is $1,522. He said that was up from last year's $1,233. Nationwide, 111,893 refunds totaling $164.6 million were returned to the IRS.
The average dollar amount for returned refunds rose by almost 22 percent this year, possibly due to recent changes in tax law that introduced new credits or expanded existing credits, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit, Green said.
If a refund check is returned to the IRS as undelivered, taxpayers can generally update their addresses with the Where's My Refund? tool on IRS.gov. The tool also enables taxpayers to check the status of their refunds. A taxpayer must submit his or her Social Security number, filing status and amount of refund shown on their 2009 return. The tool will provide the status of their refund and, in some cases, instructions on how to resolve delivery problems.
Taxpayers checking on a refund over the phone will receive instructions on how to update their addresses. Taxpayers can access a telephone version of "Where's My Refund?" by calling 1-800-829-1954.
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