More than 30% of Americans ‘don’t know if they’ll get a tax refund or if they owe IRS this year’

ONE-third of Americans don’t know whether they’ll get a tax refund or if they’ll owe the IRS money this year.

Even though the deadline for most Americans to file their taxes has been pushed back from April 15 to May 17, 32 percent of taxpayers are still unsure whether they’ll be entitled to a rebate, a new survey found.

The survey, carried out by NORC at the University of Chicago, polled 1,076 adults online and over the phone from February 25 to March 1.

“The complexities just continue to unfold,” said Angela Fontes, vice president of the economics, justice and society department at NORC to CNBC.

“To me it says there’s a lot of folks who potentially had some extenuating circumstances that make it so they’re not sure they’re getting that refund.”

Despite the concerns, most Americans do typically receive refunds from the IRS after filing their returns.

In 2020, nearly 170 million people filed tax returns, including traditional non-filers who submitted information to get their economic impact payments.

Of that number, nearly 126 million refunds were issued by the IRS, accounting for 74 percent of all filers.