Undeliverable refunds.

• Jurisdiction: United States
• Date: 01 January 2001
• Author: Laffie, Lesli S.

In 2000, the IRS received 128 million individual tax returns and issued 91 million refunds. However, according to IR-2000-78, as of mid-November 2000, the IRS was looking for more than 90,000 taxpayers who had not received tax refund checks worth $67.4 million.

An annual review showed 91,823 Federal tax refunds were returned to the IRS, a drop from 102,840 the previous year. The new tally included tax refunds from 1999 and prior tax years.

The total amount of returned refunds fell $4.6 million from a year ago, when they totaled $72 million. The average per-check amount was $734...