The Internal Revenue Service is looking for 3,646 New Jersey taxpayers who can claim their share of undeliverable refund checks totaling approximately $3.42 million including 37 local residents.
The IRS can reissue the checks, which average $938, after taxpayers correct or update their addresses with the IRS. In some cases, a taxpayer has more than one check waiting.
Nationally, there are 115,478 taxpayers with undeliverable refunds, totaling about $110 million with an average refund of $953.
”Taxpayers should not miss out on getting their money back,” IRS Spokesperson Gregg Semanick said. “The IRS makes it as easy as possible for taxpayers to update their addresses and claim their refunds.”
The list of local residents with undelivered refunds includes:
Belle Mead residents Jamie Bunce, Joe Corso, Bruce Gold, Frances Kinney-Sauls, Mary Beth Martin, Sandra Pennino-Farmham and Mary Romanelli.
Wojciech Lis of Manville.
Hillsborough residents Jennifer Laufhutte, Yury Nebieridze, Mohammad Sherkay, R. and S. Khaiambashi, Eimile Sullivan and Madeline Tine.
Neshanic Station residents Fred and Barbara Barbieri, Matthew MacCrea, Anthony and Carmen Papavero, Keith and Shannon Swann and Blaire Wagner.
Somerville residents Majorie Arias, Philip Bennett, Arton Berdynaj, Jose Collago, Jazmine Cruz, Jessica Gregory, Kiew Gunther, Gregory Howard, Carl Benjamin Howley Lyon, Takashige and Keiko Iguchi, Lucy Lamarco, Staci Liu, K. Rodenberg, Thomas Sikorsky, Tarsem Singh, Elizabeth Stevens and Taylor Swain.
The “Where’s My Refund?” tool on IRS.gov enables taxpayers to check the status of their refunds. A taxpayer must submit his or her social security number, filing status and amount of refund shown on their 2006 return. The tool will provide the status of their refund and in some cases provide instructions on how to resolve delivery problems.
Taxpayers can access a telephone version of “Where’s My Refund?” by calling 1-800-829-1954.
Refund checks are mailed to a taxpayer’s last known address. Checks are returned to the IRS if a taxpayer moves without notifying the IRS or the U.S. Postal Service.
The number of undeliverable refunds each year is a relatively small portion of all refunds returned to taxpayers. So far in 2007, the IRS has processed nearly 105 million refunds, totaling about $240 billion, either by mail or direct deposit.
