IRS announces start of tax season – what to know

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Friday announced details for the start of the 2025 tax filing season, which will begin in earnest later this month.

Tax filing season will open on Monday, Jan. 27 for taxpayers submitting their tax returns for tax year 2024. The IRS said it expects more than 140 million individual tax returns by the federal deadline for filing returns for tax year 2024, which will be Tuesday, April 15.

The agency added that with about half of all returns expected...