Missed out or did not receive your Economic Impact Payment Stimulus Check. Some good news for the US Residents/ US citizens, You can still claim this payment via Recovery Rebate Credit Refund by filing your 2020 1040 US tax return.
By now the IRS and Treasury have issued all first and second Economic Impact Payments. If you didn’t get the full Economic Impact Payment, you may be eligible to claim the Recovery Rebate Credit. If you didn’t get any Economic Impact Payments or got less than the full amounts, you may qualify for the Recovery Rebate Credit and must file a 2020 tax return to claim the credit even if you don’t normally file.
If You have received a letter from IRS with Notice 1444 for the first Economic Impact Payment, and Notice 1444-B for the second Economic Impact Payment. Refer to them when completing your 2020 tax return. If eligible for the Recovery Rebate Credit, you need to use the information from these letters to determine the amounts to include on the Recovery Rebate Credit Worksheet to calculate your credit amount.
Individual US Residents and US citizens residing outside of the United States who are eligible for the Recovery Rebate Credit and have already received the full amount in two rounds of payments, known as Economic Impact Payments [Eligibility for Economic Impact Payment].
If IRS issued you the full amount of each Economic Impact Payment, you cannot claim the Recovery Rebate Credit or need to include any information related to it when you file your 2020 tax return.
Economic Impact Payments were based on your 2018 or 2019 tax year information. All Economic Impact Payments have now been issued. The Recovery Rebate Credit is similar except that the eligibility and the amount are based on the 2020 information you include on your 2020 tax return.
If you’re eligible for the credit, and IRS didn’t issue you any Economic Impact Payments or IRS issued less than the full amounts or received 1st payment of [$1200 for Single/MFS filer/$2,400 for MFJ filers/$600 for each qualifying child] and if individuals didn’t receive the second payment[$600 for Single/MFS filer/$1,200 for MFJ filers/$600 for each qualifying child] or received only one of two eligible payments, in this situation the US residents/US citizens must file a 2020 1040 Individual tax return to claim the Recovery Rebate Credit even if you are not required to file a tax return for 2020. If you’re eligible for the Recovery Rebate Credit on your 2020 tax return, this amount will be reduced by any Economic Impact Payments IRS issued to you. Ensure to complete the US tax return accurately when you file the 1040 forms for the 2020 tax year.
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