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The House voted on Wednesday evening to pass a $78 billion bipartisan tax package that would temporarily expand the child tax credit and restore a number of business tax benefits.

House passes bipartisan tax bill that expands child tax credit

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House GOP leaders continue to push a $78 billion bipartisan tax package that would temporarily expand the child tax credit and restore a number of business tax benefits. But many hurdles remain, and whether it ultimately passes both chambers is in doubt.

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There's still time to claim the enhanced child tax credit as well as other federal tax breaks, which could be worth hundreds -- if not thousands -- of dollars. But you have to submit your 2021 tax return first.

To get the entire child tax credit, you need to file your 2021 tax return

Stimulus payment

Tax season is here. However, some people are just getting their federal government letter on child tax credits and the third stimulus. That's slowing the process down.


NOW. AS YOU WATCH WRAL NEWS AVAILABLE ON HULU AND THE WRAL APP ON YOUR TV OR STREAMING DEVICE. TAX SEASON IS HERE AND SOON THE DEADLINE WILL ARRIVE FOR YOU TO SUBMIT YOUR PAPERWORK. HOWEVER, SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST GETTING THEIR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT LETTER ON CHILD TAX CREDITS AND THE 3RD STIMULUS THAT IS SLOWING DOWN THE PROCESS FOR THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. AND TO TALK MORE ABOUT THE DELAYS, WE ARE JOINED NOW BY CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT BEN MECUM. BEN, THANKS SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE. AGAIN, THIS NOON AS WE GET CLOSE TO THE SEASON HERE, LOTS OF FOLKS WAITING THIS TAX SEASON. WHAT CAN PEOPLE DO IF THEY HAVEN'T YET RECEIVED THOSE LETTERS FROM THE IRS? >> WELL, YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVEN'T RECEIVED IT BY NOW, I THINK THE CHANCES ARE SO FAR ARE SMALL IT YOU'RE GOING TO RECEIVE THEM. SO WE JUST ASK OUR CLIENTS. DID YOU RECEIVE IT? AND THEN THEY COME BACK. SO THE 3RD STIMULUS CAME AROUND THE END OF MARCH AND IN APRIL OF LAST YEAR SO THEY CAN LOOK IN THEIR CHECKING ACCOUNTS IF THE MAN AND A POSITIVE, A LOT OF WE'RE DRY DEPOSITED TO CHECK YOUR ACCOUNT AND THEN ON THE ADVANCE CHILD TAX CREDITS AS LETTERS HAVE COME OUT MORE THAN THE STIMULUS. ONE. SO YOU JUST HAVE TO CHECK YOUR WE HAVE AN IDEA WHAT YOU GOT. YOU KNOW, YOU CAN KIND OF GOT TO CHECK YOUR RECORDS IF YOU DIDN'T GET THAT LETTER. I BELIEVE THERE'S A REPORT ON THE RSI THAT YOU CAN GO ON. BUT YOU HAVE TO BE SIGNED OUT WITH THEM IN ORDER TO DO THAT. ALSO ALSO HEARING ABOUT BUSINESS OWNERS BEEN LOOKING TO FILE TAXES. THEY'RE STILL WAITING. WHAT'S CAUSING THIS DELAY? >> MY SON ASKED TO DO IT. NORTH CAROLINA ARE LAWMAKERS WERE KIND OF SLOW TO APPROVE THE BUDGET. IT'S I THINK THAT CARRIED OVER TO TO THE DEPARTMENT OF GETTING THEIR ACT TOGETHER SO THAT EARLY OUR SOFTWARE JUST GOT THE END OF LAST WEEK, THE STARTING STEPPING INDIVIDUAL RETURNS AND IT'S REALLY HARD TO FOLLOW FEDERAL. >> IF YOU CAN'T FILE THE INDIVIDUAL, NORTH CAROLINA ALSO, OUR SOFTWARE IS NOT THAT HASN'T WE CAN DO. THIS IS FOR TERMS WHICH ARE DUE IN ABOUT A WEEK. NORTH CAROLINA HASN'T GOT A PRAYER. HAS AN IMPRESSIVE THAT JUST STARTED FRIDAY. WERE THEY AFRAID? VENDORS IN OUR VENDOR HAS NOT BEEN SOUTH. JUST REALLY SLOWING THINGS DOWN. SO I'M GOING TO BE A LOT MORE EXTENSIONS THIS YEAR. I CAN TELL YOU THAT. WHAT ABOUT ONCE PEOPLE DO FILE A STATE AND FEDERAL TAXES? HOW SOON CAN THEY EXPECT TO SEE THE RETURN? >> WELL, YOU KNOW, WE WERE ABLE TO FILE SOME CHEDDAR ROLES, THE AND THE STATE AND THEY WERE OUT OF STATE AND THEY'VE GOT THEIR MONEY WITHIN LIKE 10 DAYS, 11 DAYS. I DON'T THINK THAT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S BEEN SLOW COURSE. NORTH CAROLINA HAS A RELEASE. REFUNDS OUT THAT I KNOW IF YOU MAIL YOUR RETURN AND THAT'S PROBABLY GOING TO SLOW DOWN A LOT. SO WE PRETTY MUCH JUST WAITED TO EUFAULA. EVERYBODY NOT JUST STARTED EUFAULA THE BEGINNING OF THE OUR LAST AND BUT I DON'T THINK NECESSARILY FEDERALES BEEN SLOW. I HEAR NORTH CAROLINA'S GOING TO BE SPUN JUST BECAUSE OF ALL THEIR PROBLEMS. EVEN WITH THE IRS ASKING TO HIRE 10,000 MORE WORKERS. WE REPORT STORIES ON THAT BEEN MAKING. THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> ONCE AGAIN, JOINING US IT IS CRUNCH TIME RIGHT NOW TO GET

Tax delays for the 2022 season 

From filing a tax return to whether the payments may resume, a look at what's next for the expanded child tax credit.


as tax season begins millions of U. S. Households with Children are receiving. I. R. S. Letter 6419. And experts say it's important it documents how many Children the I. R. S. Is aware of that you have or dependence that qualify for the child tax credit. And it tells you how many how much payment the I. R. S. Made on your behalf throughout 2021 From july through december 2021. The I. R. S. Says more than 36 million households received monthly advances on 2021 tax credits for Children under age 17. The payments part of the $1.9 trillion covid relief plan signed by President joe biden last March, Caroline bruckner, managing director of the Kogod Tax Policy Center at American University says this will require extra attention when you file your taxes in recognizing that this may be a little bit confusing. The I. R. S. Rolled out a new website, the child tax credit dot gov website where you can go to research how much you should have received, how much you did receive And reconcile that letter with what you actually got. The number on the letter should represent half of the amount to which a household was entitled. The other half can be claimed on a 2021 return. There were no payments in january 2022. The program expired with biden's social safety net package mired in senate gridlock. We hear from families themselves that they said you know the child tax credit is not nearly enough to sort of live on or give up their paid work for. What it does do is help them get to work, you know, by making sure they can cover childcare expenses, put gas in the car Megan Curran of the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at the Columbia University School of Social Work says research showed the payments helped lower child poverty rates and child hunger. The number one use of the child tax credit payments has been on food. In addition to reviving the child tax payments for 2022 the stall biden build back better bill wants to boost funding for the overstretched I. R. S. Without that. This tax season bruckner urges taxpayers to seek help early, especially with pandemic era programs. This is created just an extraordinary amount of work with fewer Folks to actually do that work than at any other time. And this is also compounded by the reality of the pandemic. The filing deadline for most taxpayers is Monday April 18 in Washington. I'm Karen Hkifa

What's next for the child tax credit? 

Paying bills

Speaking to a radio show host on Dec. 20, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said the Build Back Better Act's Child Tax Credit extension includes "no means testing." PolitiFact checks his claim.

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Low-income families could get a check in the mail from the IRS by Dec. 15, but have to register online by Monday. 

BASED ON WHAT IS BEST FOR THE PEOPLE OF NORTH CAR LINEA. >>> THE NEXT ROUND OF CHILD TAX CREDIT PAYMENTS IS SET TO GO OUT TOMORROW. THE MONEY REACHES TENS OF MILLIONS OF AMERICAN FAMILIES. MOST PARENTS AUTOMATICALLY GET ENHANCED CREDIT UP TO $300 FOR EACH CHILD UP TO AGE 6 AND $250 AGES 6 THROUGH 17 UNLESS CONGRESS ACTS, IT COULD BE THE SECOND TO LAST PAYMENT YOU WILL

Next round of child tax credit payments go out tomorrow

The latest round of monthly child tax credit payments were distributed to tens of millions of families on Monday. Parents may receive only one more installment next month unless Congress acts.

Child tax credit payments go out to tens of millions of families

Child, reading

Millions of families should soon receive their fourth enhanced child tax credit payment, which the Internal Revenue Service distributed on Friday.

More than $15 billion in child tax credit payments distributed on Friday

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A heads up for parents with children aged 17 or younger: That tax credit the government sent might need to be paid back.

Child tax credit now could limit refund in the spring

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Child Tax Credit relief payments as families of some 60 million children receive money Thursday that could help them recover from the economic hardships of the pandemic. 

okay for families all over our country, for Children, all over our country help us here. It is a good day America and I'll tell you know, my mother, she worked hard at being a mother, whether it was waking up at the crack of dawn to pack our lunches and get us ready for school or whether after we went to bed sitting at our kitchen table and trying to just figure out how to make it all work. And I know it wasn't easy even though she never said that my family's story is not all that remarkable. It is the story of the american family. Parents who will do anything for their Children, parents who work so hard every day, parents who deserve their government and their leaders to really see them to really understand them as they juggle all their responsibilities every month, every month the rent becomes due every month the child care provider needs a check, a check that could take half an income every month. American families need to buy groceries and gas to pay for rent or homeowners, insurance utilities and car loans. And even if they have enough to make ends meet, it is often just barely enough. One unexpected expense could mean the difference between taking on more debt or losing it all in the wealthiest nation in the world. It should not be this way and the president and I, well, we both believe that. So when we took office, we set out to provide american families with some relief. And that is exactly what we are doing. And I want to thank those members of Congress who led and voted to expand the child tax credit. The president will detail the expansion, but let me _ one important piece. This tax cut will be issued in monthly payments. This has never happened before and America. Yes, it is a big deal. I have been fighting for months and for for quite some time even when I was in the Senate for monthly payments because I know if the struggle to make ends meet is monthly. The solution has to be also so before I introduce our president, let me close with this. The payments may be monthly. But the impact of this child tax credit will undoubtedly be generational. Indeed it is the largest middle class tax cut in generations and will lift up half of our nation's Children who are living in poverty out of poverty and then lifting up those Children and then lifting up the american family. It will lift up our entire nation. Today is a good day America. It is a historic day and we are here today because of the vision and the leadership of a fellow parent of a president who believes with all his heart that the strength of our nation should be measured by the strength of our families and our Children. It is my great honor to introduce President joe biden. Right. Thank you. Well for you. Anybody under the age 13. This is gonna be boring, boring, boring. Right? Well, I'll tell you what, we have to work something out here. So this is over your parents, Your uncles, your answer ever. You're with, they always some ice cream or something. You know, folks, it's a pleasure to be here. Take a sip here and uh huh This um, I believe this is actually a historic day, historic day in the sense that we continue to build an economy that respects and recognizes the dignity of working class families and middle class families. It's historic and it's our effort to make another giant step toward ending child poverty America. I think this will be one of the things that the vice president, I will be most proud of when our terms are up beginning this morning. Nearly all working families that is people making under $150,000 as families are an individual making $120,000 25,000 who have Children or raising Children american, they're going to receive their first monthly, first monthly tax cut payment, that payment, that payment from the expanded child tax credit is that we signed in the law as part of my, our american rescue plan, It's one of the largest ever single tax cuts for families with Children. And it's a reflection of our belief that the people of this country who need a tax cut aren't the folks at the top, They've got plenty of tax cuts. They're doing just fine. But it's the people in the middle, the folks who are struggling, we're just looking for a little bit and my dad would say a little bit of breathing, a little bit of breathing. This has the potential to reduce child poverty in the same way that the Social Security reduced poverty for the elderly. And by the way, you think of monthly payments, you get a Social Security, check those who you know, get Social Security, they get it monthly. Well this will be unless you want it in one lump sum. This will be a monthly payment for child care for for me, for your Children. A tax cut. Here's how the tax credit works for every child under the age of six Parent will get $3,600 a year For every child, 6-17, They'll get $3,000 per year. For example, Middle Class family with two young Children could expect to receive $7,200 a year to help raise their Children. This will be that they'll get the first half of this, $3,600 starting today today today. And will be paid out at $600 a month between now july and december. And then they get the rest of the payment next spring around tax day. Now if you file taxes electronically, you can go to your bank account today today and you'll see a a payment that says child C. T. C. Let me say that again, Payments of $300 for each child under the age of six, $250 for each child between the age of six and 17 on a monthly basis. Between now between July and December. If you don't file electron your taxes electronically as you did last year, you can expect to receive a check in the mail beginning today or a few days from now And you'll get this payment on the 15th of every month for the rest of this year. And if you're not required to file taxes at all in the past, you haven't filed because you didn't owe any taxes, then you can go to child tax credit dot gov. We say it again. Child tax credit dot gov. And you will give you, I'll give you clear information and a link help you sign up for the first time. This can be life changing for so many families because of the way the tax credit was structured before the american rescue plan. More than 26 million Children from the hardest pressed working families didn't get any full payment for the Child credit, for child care, for a child tax credit, half of all black and hispanic Children in America never received the full tax credit. We've changed all that. In technical terms, we've made this tax cut fully refundable in plain english. It means instead of families who need help the most getting like getting the least the hard working families, hardworking families will get this on a month full monthly basis, 97% of the Children receiving this credit come from working families And the other 3% include kids being raised by retired grandparents or by someone with a serious disability. And by the way, this credit doesn't start to phase out until A couple is making $150,000 or a single parent is making $112,000. It begins to phase out. Then this is a middle class tax cut when I came up when I decided I wanted this in the legislation, I referred to it in the way it really is. It's a middle class tax cut. It's just like the wealthy get tax cuts for a lot of things. It's a tax cut for your Children having Children. And this can make it possible for hardworking parents to say to his or her child honey, we get, you can get your new braces now you can get your tutor to help you in that math class, you having trouble, We can get you the sports community to sign up for your first team. You're going to plan. People have written to me to tell me they use the money to buy their kids new shoes to send them to summer camp cover after school care when school starts up again, you know, and to give you a sense of how transformative this is. This would be the largest ever one year decrease in child poverty in the history of the United States of America as we begin now, historic reductions in child poverty among white, black and Latinos and api communities. It's not even close. The benefits will be felt for years. Studies have shown the tax relief that helps Children. That's okay. Don't worry about it's okay. Let him cry her whichever that helps Children and can lead to better health, better school performance and better future journeys. In fact, research from Columbia University in new york found that for each dollar this tax cut cost It returns $8 in benefits down the line. $8 would have to be spent other ways. It's a gigantic help. It's an 8-1 return your head, your heart and your budget all lead to the same place. This is the right thing to do. And it's a smart thing to do today. These tax cut payments are arriving automatically, but it didn't happen automatically the result of the work of people who did this, advocating for this for a long, long time. And we finally got a pass to my american rescue plan. I want to particularly thank those who have been fighting for this for years. Congresswoman Rosa, dealer from Connecticut. She has been a champion for this issue. Congressman Richie NEal and and Torres and Senators Bennett Brown and Booker Ron Wyden probably hear from our Republican friends, all who voted against this, but they'll tout the success as it helps working families and in their states, in their districts. But in the coming days, we're also going to hear from them saying I want to now extend this tax. Well, it's only for one year now. All I can get it for the first time. And so I want to extend it into the future. Now have another piece of legislation we voted on soon time. We're going to continue this to the people who say we can't afford to give the middle class of break. I say we can't afford it By making people at the top. And the big corporations over 50 of which paid no taxes last year at all. Finally, just just start paying their fair share, Not gonna gouge them, Just pay their fair share because people who are working hard and paying taxes deserve a break. That's why I excuse me for all these terms amusing. But my build back better agenda, which still needs to be voted on in. The Congress keeps this tax cut for working families in place for years to come. We shouldn't let taxes go up on working families. We shouldn't let child poverty continue to stain the conscience or drag down our economy. And so I say to my colleagues in Congress, this tax cut for working families is something we should extend. Not end next year. And I say to all of you watching, make sure your family, friends and community know about this tax cut. Send to them as I said, child tax credit dot gov to learn more about the difference this is going to make in their lives. Let me close with this. I signed the american rescue plan Less than two months after taking office in January 20. Four months later, we've implemented the first, we've implement the first ever automatic monthly payment for any major tax credit ever as the vice president's talking about on Social Security, which is a long time ago. This groundbreaking effort is similar to what we did and are what I called our wartime effort to vaccinate Americans against COVID-19 to mobilize the whole country. We're proving we're proving that democracy can deliver for people and deliver in a timely way, saving lives and improving lives, helping fuel record setting recovery, giving working families a fighting chance. Again, I received an email today from a mother in Washington state. She's a young teacher who had just received her payment. She wrote and I'm quoting my family has been living. Hand them out to put me through school so I can follow my passion of molding young minds. This first CTC payment has come at the exact moment when we need it. Most these payments may seem small to some, but their life changing for my family. For us, millions of Children and their families starting today. Their lives are about to change for the better and our country will be better off for it as well. This is a really good day. And parents are you able to tell your kids when they're 25 years old and you were there the day this happened, we talked about we're showing once again that there's nothing beyond the capacity, our capacities, americans to get done when we do it together. So I want to thank you God bless you all and may God protect our troops and kids. Thank you for being so polite while I was speaking. You're very, very nice. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. See you. Bye bye. Thank you.