Say goodbye to waiting for a check in the mail. The IRS is making direct deposit mandatory for most tax refunds in 2026. Here ...

In a move to make payments more efficient and to reduce the risk of fraud, the federal government is changing both how they receive taxpayers’ payments as well as how they make payments to others.

IRS will start accepting tax returns on Jan. 26. Use direct deposit for refunds and the "Where's My Refund" tool to track it, ...

Rumors about new stimulus checks, IRS direct deposits, relief payments and tariff dividends swirled throughout 2025, and they ...

What do increased fraud, significant costs and operational inefficiencies all have in common? Paper checks, or, at least, those were the reasons cited when President Donald Trump issued an executive ...

On March 25, 2025, Executive Order 14247 was issued, requiring that all federal payments, including tax payments to the IRS, be made via electronic funds transfer (EFT). This mandate is part of a ...