N Carolina Accepting Individual Tax Returns Starting Monday

North Carolina Senate Republicans advanced a two-year budget that doubles down on already enacted income tax cuts.

Written by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS North Carolina taxpayers will have to wait a little longer to file. After the state pushed back the date when it’s able to process tax returns to mid-February, it has now delayed a bit further to the end of the month, The News & Observer reported. Tax season is starting late […]

Written by GARY D. ROBERTSON A broad tax cut proposal from North Carolina Senate Republicans that began its advance in the chamber on Tuesday also contains federal COVID-19 relief money to give more aid to businesses that previously received federal or state pandemic assistance. GOP finance leaders unveiled an amended version of its tax plan, some of which […]

Much of the surge in North Carolina income tax collections this spring can’t be counted on to repeat in 2020 and 2021, state government economists said Tuesday. That could limit options on further spending or tax breaks in the upcoming two-year budget. An updated examination of April tax collections by legislative staff and Gov. Roy […]

North Carolina is again cutting personal and corporate income tax rates. A law passed by the Republican-led General Assembly takes effect Tuesday reducing the state tax on personal wages and other earnings from about 5.5 percent to 5.25 percent. The corporations will pay be less than half the personal rate after Wednesday, when their state […]

North Carolina’s tax collectors are refunding money to thousands of taxpayers whose electronic payments were wrongly subtracted twice from their bank accounts. The Department of Revenue said Thursday the error happened because a high volume of 2017 payments were being made around last week’s filing deadline. But the agency says the roughly 6,400 taxpayers affected […]

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