Wondering when your 2026 tax refund will arrive? This guide breaks down estimated IRS refund timelines, common reasons for delays, and how to track your refund using official IRS tools—so you know what to expect this tax season.

Laptop with IRS Website IRS E-File Shutdown 2025 The IRS E-File Shutdown for 2025  is officially scheduled to begin on Friday, December 26, 2025, at 11:59 A.M. Eastern Time . This year’s shutdown starts later than usual—giving taxpayers, including U.S. expats, more time to submit electronic returns before the system goes offline for its annual maintenance period. Before anything else, remember: this is NOT a tax filing deadline . It is simply the annual scheduled pause of the

The IRS has shut down its Direct File program, citing high costs and low use. Learn what this means for Florida small business owners and how Belshaw Accounting can help.

🚨 Billions of New 1099s Are Coming — Here’s What You Need to Know About the 1099-DA🚨 Major Shift Is Coming for Crypto Investors and Taxpayers With the next tax season  rapidly approaching, the IRS is preparing to roll out one of the biggest reporting changes in decades.Starting January 2026 , the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)  will begin requiring Form 1099-DA  for digital asset transactions   and estimates suggest that up to 8 billion  of these forms will be issued.Yes, y

Two things tend to make people nervous: 😱 IRS audits 🤖 Artificial Intelligence And now… they’ve joined forces. For decades, the IRS has used something called the DIF (Discriminant Index Function) . Every tax return gets a DIF score — and the higher your score, the higher your chance of being audited. DIF compares your numbers to the “norms” for taxpayers like you. In many ways, that was the IRS’s first version of AI — a rules-based system built on patterns and probabilities