Author: Elizabeth Blessing
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Kia owners who paid for a window regulator repair can claim up to $400 until November 23
A failed window regulator can drop the glass inside the door, and a federal class settlement now pays back part of what Kia owners spent fixing it. Claims on the 2016-2017 Optima and 2017 Sportage settlement can be filed through November 23, 2026, with reimbursement capped at $400 for repairs made under 35,000 miles. The…
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New York City’s click to cancel rule took effect October 1
Businesses that sell subscriptions to New Yorkers have been operating under a new set of cancellation rules since October 1, 2026, when the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection began enforcing its final rule on subscriptions. The rule covers New York City only, but it is written in the vocabulary of the national click-to-cancel…
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A Grubhub refund sent through PayPal must be accepted within 30 days rather than the 90 days a check allows
Grubhub drivers and diners who receive a refund from the Federal Trade Commission face two different deadlines, depending on how the money arrives. A PayPal payment has to be accepted within 30 days, while a mailed check has to be cashed within 90. The FTC’s page for the program counts 640,038 payments worth more than…
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Amway’s distributors have no claim process yet for the FTC’s largest ever payout against a multilevel marketer
No form exists, no website has been announced and no deadline has been set for anyone hoping to collect from the largest sum the Federal Trade Commission has ever sought from a multilevel marketing company. On September 17, 2026, the agency announced a proposed order under which Amway Corp. and two affiliates would pay $225…
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The business mileage rate rose to 76 cents in July from 72.5 cents
A business mile driven on June 30, 2026 and a business mile driven on July 1 are worth different amounts on a federal tax return. The IRS raised the standard mileage rate for business use to 76 cents a mile effective July 1, up from the 72.5 cents it had set for the whole year…
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A taxpayer’s new school donation credit shrinks by any state credit claimed on the same gift
The Treasury Department and the IRS announced on October 1, 2026 the first rules for a new federal credit on gifts to scholarship granting organizations, which Treasury calls the Education Freedom Tax Credit. The credit is first available for 2027, and its amount shrinks by any state credit the same donor claims on the same…
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The IRS generally stopped mailing paper refund checks to individuals and has sent 4.2 million notices holding a refund
More than 4.2 million CP53E notices had gone out by May 2026, each one telling an individual taxpayer that the IRS lacked bank details for a refund. The letters follow the end of routine paper refund checks for individuals after September 30, 2025. The count appears in a September 2026 report from the Treasury Inspector…
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The IRS paid $61.5 million in interest last year on refunds it held from identity theft victims
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration reported on September 21, 2026 that the IRS paid approximately $61.5 million in interest on delayed refunds in identity theft cases it closed during fiscal year 2025. From fiscal year 2023 through 2025, taxpayers in those cases waited 20 months on average for the IRS to process them.…
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The IRS has published no 2027 tax brackets or standard deduction figures at all
The standard deduction for tax year 2027 and the income thresholds for each tax bracket had not been published by the IRS as of October 3, 2026. Last year the package that carries them came out on October 9, 2025, six days later on the calendar than today. The IRS has not said when the…
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Eighteen disaster declarations override the October 15 filing deadline
October 15 is the day a six-month filing extension runs out, and for taxpayers inside eighteen IRS disaster declarations it is not the day that applies. The IRS list shows thirteen declarations that push deadlines to February 1, 2027 and five that push them to November 2, 2026, and every one of those dates falls…