opinion piece in The Washington Examiner by Becket Adams
Tax refunds are up from where they were this time last year by 1.3 percent following the fourth week of the 2019 filing season, according to newInternal Revenue Service data.
To be more specific, the average tax refund has increased to $3,143 from $3,103 last February, according to cumulative statistics comparing the 2018 and 2019 filing seasons.
Oddly enough, certain newsrooms have responded to this development with total silence. I say “odd,” because it was just a few weeks ago that these same newsrooms rushed to report that tax refunds weresmaller this year, suggesting either implicitly or explicitly that the decrease was tied to the Republican Party’s tax reform bill.
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