Tips to file your tax return while avoiding fees, scams & recouping your stimulus payment

Avoiding scams while doing your taxes and how to get your stimulus payment if you have not received it. 

Tips to file your tax return while avoiding fees, scams

Every year, it seems there are more issues to watch out for, primarily scams looking to get your personal information, and fees that can add up when trying to file your return using software. 

How to get your stimulus payments when you file your tax return

If you haven’t received any stimulus payments yet and believe you should have, don’t fret. You will be able to recoup your money when you file your income tax return in the weeks ahead.

 

 

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Deirdre Cummings

Legislative Director, MASSPIRG

Deirdre runs MASSPIRG’s public health, consumer protection and tax and budget programs. Deirdre has led campaigns to improve public records law and require all state spending to be transparent and available on an easy-to-use website, close $400 million in corporate tax loopholes, protect the state’s retail sales laws to reduce overcharges and preserve price disclosures, reduce costs of health insurance and prescription drugs, and more. Deirdre also oversees a Consumer Action Center in Weymouth, Mass., which has mediated 17,000 complaints and returned $4 million to Massachusetts consumers since 1989. Deirdre currently resides in Maynard, Mass., with her family. Over the years she has visited all but one of the state's 351 towns — Gosnold.

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