The White House Office of Management and Budget has just announced that despite reporting that tax refunds wouldn’t go out during the government shutdown, tax refunds will happen as usual:
JUST IN: White House says U.S. tax refunds will still go out despite the ongoing government shutdown pic.twitter.com/2GtKdoN36f
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NEW: The IRS will pay tax refunds even if the partial government shutdown extends into the tax filing season, a top WH official told reporters, per @laurapdavison.
— Laura Litvan (@LauraLitvan) January 7, 2019
`Tax refunds will go out,'' Russell Vought, acting director of the WH Office of Management and Budget said.
The Internal Revenue Service will issue refunds to taxpayers even if the U.S. government shutdown extends into the filing season, a decision that may reduce political pressure on Congress and President Donald Trump to reach a deal to re-open the federal government.
“Tax refunds will go out,” the acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, told reporters at a briefing on Monday.
Well that’s good news. I’m sure it will take more of the heat off of the White House during this partial government shutdown.
I’ll update with more if it develops…