{"id":10336,"date":"2015-03-15T10:46:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T15:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=10336"},"modified":"2015-03-15T10:46:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T15:46:46","slug":"usps-some-states-mailing-tax-refunds-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/03\/15\/usps-some-states-mailing-tax-refunds-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS: Some states mailing tax refunds this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Safe returns<\/h1>\n<h2>Some states mailing tax refunds this year<\/h2>\n<p><time class=\"pubdate\" datetime=\"2015-03-13T21:46:00.000Z\">USPS News &#8211;\u00a03\/13\/15<\/time><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2015\/03mar\/images\/news16s3.jpg\" alt=\"Taxes\" width=\"220\" \/><\/div>\n<h6>To combat fraud, some states are<br \/>\nmailing tax refunds this year.<\/h6>\n<p>The checks are in the mail again.<\/p>\n<p>To combat identify theft and fraud this tax season, Colorado and South Carolina are<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coloradoan.com\/story\/money\/2015\/02\/19\/colo-mailing-tax-refunds-fraud-concerns\/23676787\/\" target=\"_blank\">mailing refund checks<\/a><\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>\u2014 even if filers chose a direct deposit option.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCriminals attempting to steal taxpayer refunds is a growing, national problem, and one we are committed to fighting,\u201d Rick Reames, South Carolina\u2019s top tax official,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wltx.com\/story\/money\/2015\/03\/03\/state-sending-some-tax-refunds-by-mail-to-deter-fraud\/24309007\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>told<\/em><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>the Greenville News last week.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Massachusetts and Vermont<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/business\/2015\/02\/06\/turbotax-stops-processing-state-tax-returns-fraud-reports\/dvPJbZC9G4tpzJx9ORsZcJ\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>temporarily halted<\/em><\/a>\u00a0refunds in February following widespread reports of identity theft and fraud tied to online tax preparation software.<\/p>\n<p>The rise in electronic fraud has prompted some experts to urge people to file their returns by mail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wonder whether the risks of e-filing outweigh the convenience of a faster refund and saving on postage stamps,\u201d accountant Paul Bleeg<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/sanfrancisco\/blog\/2015\/02\/turbotax-intuit-returns-electronic-filing-fraud.html?ana=yahoo\" target=\"_blank\"><em>wrote<\/em><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>in a recent San Francisco Business Times column.<\/p>\n<p>Experts also are advising consumers to mail returns and similar documents from Post Offices, Marketwatch<em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/should-you-snail-mail-your-tax-returns-2015-02-07\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a><\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>recently.<\/p>\n<p>USPS offers guidance for tax filers<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usps.com\/taxes\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>online<\/em><\/a>, including mailing tips, proof of mailing services and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safe returns Some states mailing tax refunds this year USPS News &#8211;\u00a03\/13\/15 To combat fraud, some states are mailing tax refunds this year. The checks are in the mail again. To combat identify theft and fraud this tax season, Colorado and South Carolina are\u00a0mailing refund checks\u00a0\u2014 even if filers chose a direct deposit option. \u201cCriminals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10338,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336\/revisions\/10338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}