As a result of the passage of the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), 2025 marked a major shift in how millions of American workers report their income and claim deductions. For the first time, tipped workers and overtime earners may receive significant new deductions, even if their employers aren’t yet required to separately track [...]
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has had a long backlog that, due in part to funding received in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, it only began to catch up on in mid-2023. In the meantime, the IRS’s backlogs and delays might have lulled taxpayers into a false sense of security. [...]