Newsrooms that rushed to report tax refunds were smaller this year go silent on IRS data showing ref

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Newsrooms that rushed to report tax refunds were smaller this year go silent on IRS data showing refunds have increased
by Becket Adams  | March 02, 2019 09:17 AM

Tax refunds have increased by 1.3 percent from last year following the fourth week of the 2019 filing season, according to new Internal Revenue Service data.

To be more specific, the average tax refund has increased to $3,143 from $3,103 last February, according to cumulative statistics comparing the 2018 and 2019 filing seasons.

Oddly enough, certain newsrooms have responded to this development with total silence. I say “odd” because it was just a few weeks ago that these same newsrooms covered the initial filing data, which showed the average tax refund this year has been smaller than in 2018. These news organizations also suggested (both implicitly and explicitly) that the decrease is tied to the Republican Party’s tax reform bill.

Read more at: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/newsrooms-that-rushed-to-report-tax-refunds-were-smaller-this-year-go-silent-on-irs-data-showing-refunds-have-increased