Department of Revenue Coverage

The state either doesn't know, or won't say, how many people paid too much in tax penalty

Almost 700,000 people were over-penalized by North Carolina's Department of Revenue, but it's unclear whether everyone who paid too much on their tax bill has gotten a refund.

Keely Arthur, WRAL consumer reporter

More than 526,000 NC taxpayers given incorrect tax bills

More than half a million North Carolina taxpayers got incorrect tax bills by the state this year, and every day the number of people getting incorrect bills is climbing.

Keely Arthur, WRAL consumer reporter

Editorial: If a tax break is good for N.C. corporations, don't treat student loans differently

Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022 -- This is a state legislature that's never seen a corporate tax cut it didn't embrace. It wasted little time to link to federal tax codes to exempt those businesses from state taxes on millions they got in federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) dollars. It should act with the same dispatch to extend the same break to those with student loans.

NC to distribute up to $200 million to businesses for pandemic losses

The state of North Carolina is trying again this month to give out COVID relief money to businesses.

$200 million now available to NC businesses for pandemic losses

The state of North Carolina is trying again this month to give out COVID relief money to businesses. The Business Recovery Grant program reopened Monday for a second round of grant applications.

Laura Leslie, WRAL Capitol bureau chief

Hundreds of millions in pandemic relief still unclaimed

State officials overseeing COVID-19 relief efforts say hundreds of millions of dollars remain available to help businesses and homeowners who suffered financial loss due to the pandemic.

Laura Leslie, capitol bureau chief

NC halts business grant applications as lawmakers mull program expansion

The grants offer one-time payments to North Carolina businesses that suffered an economic loss of at least 20 percent during the pandemic.

Bryan Anderson, WRAL statehouse reporter

Walk in, get help: IRS offers free help for taxpayers Saturday at Brier Creek

Taxpayers can get free face-to-face help from the IRS on Saturday at the IRS Taxpayer Assistance Center at Brier Creek.

Tax season begins today, but NC won't process state taxes until February

Today is the first day federal tax returns can be filed. But the Internal Revenue Service is warning of delays due to staffing shortages and complicated filings with all the child tax credits and stimulus payments that went out last year.

Matt Talhelm, WRAL reporter

Deadline for NC families to apply for Extra Credit grant is Monday

North Carolina residents have until 2 p.m. on Monday to apply for hundreds of dollars in grant money from the state.

Kasey Cunningham, WRAL reporter

North Carolina is sending parents $335, but some need to check their paperwork

Most payments are automatic, but low-income families and people who used professional tax preparers may need to file first.

Travis Fain, WRAL statehouse reporter

What makes a business essential and which ones qualify

WRAL's Aaron Thomas has more on Hobby Lobby's decision to stay open during the coronavirus outbreak, what businesses are considered essential and who determines which ones can stay open.

Don't be tricked into paying to file your taxes

Many people who qualify for free tax filing end up paying to file because tax preparers make their free filing sites too difficult to find.

John Matarese, Don't Waste Your Money consumer reporter

Editorial: The $74,999 question. Can UNC's $2.5 million bad deal be stopped?

Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020 -- The rush by the UNC Board of Governors and the University of North Carolina and to do anything, at any cost, to get rid of the Silent Sam issue has done just the opposite. Due diligence has been neglected. Open meetings laws ignored. Superior Court Judge Allan Baddour, who signed the initial consent judgement and order with the Sons of Confederate Veterans is reexamining his approval. It is time for the courts and regulators to say enough-is-enough and negate this terrible deal.

Company sues state over tax credits, audits

After more than $1 billion in renewable energy, historic rehabilitation investments, disagreement in interpretation leads to lawsuit.

Travis Fain, WRAL statehouse reporter

Former employee accused of embezzlement at NC Department of Revenue

A Garner woman has been accused of embezzling nearly $10,000 from the North Carolina Department of Revenue.

Jason O. Boyd, WRAL.com editor

Tax scammers go door to door in NC

This tax season, some fraudsters are trying a new tactic - showing up on targets' doorsteps.

Laura Leslie

McCrory order cracks down on employment fraud

Gov. Pat McCrory signed an executive order Friday designed to curtail employers' ability to classify workers as contractors to get around paying certain state taxes.

Matthew Burns

House gives initial nod to employment fraud reform

The House on Wednesday gave preliminary approval to a measure that would crack down on employers that classify workers as independent contractors to avoid paying certain taxes.

Matthew Burns

House weighs employment fraud reform

House lawmakers are weighing competing arguments about how best to reform the state's laws governing how employers classify and pay taxes for workers.

Laura Leslie

Instructions for NC business tax returns harder to find

The N.C. Department of Revenue is no longer printing tax instruction books and forms for certain kinds of businesses.

Mark Binker

Lawmakers say government IT projects need to be smaller

State lawmakers received a postmortem Thursday on a failed effort to build a new tax-processing system - the latest government IT project to run into trouble - and said there has to be a better way to manage such projects.

State, computer company agree to speak no evil

North Carolina Revenue officials agreed not to "disparage" CGI despite the fact a tax return processing system designed by the company could not process the bulk of state tax returns.

Revenue agency pulls plug on computer system upgrade

Computer contractor CGI claims it saved the state $320 million but Department of Revenue officials say they were worried about the company's ability to "provide a quality product in a timely manner."