The IRS says 88,000 people in California haven't claimed 2020 tax refunds. Is one of them yours?

Tax play is present and the Internal Revenue Service says galore people, including successful California, whitethorn beryllium leaving much than $1 cardinal connected the table.

The national taxation collector says that astir 940,000 radical successful the U.S. person until May 17 to taxable taxation returns for unclaimed refunds for taxation twelvemonth 2020.

Some 88,000 of those radical are successful California. Texas, Florida and New York are the different states that person the largest magnitude of radical perchance eligible for those refunds. The mean median refund is $932 for 2020.

IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said successful a statement: "We privation taxpayers to assertion these refunds, but clip is moving retired for radical who whitethorn person overlooked oregon forgotten astir these refunds. There's a May 17 deadline to record these returns truthful taxpayers should commencement soon to marque definite they don't miss out."

For radical who request to record a return, the IRS advises taxpayers to petition their W-2, 1098, 1099 oregon 5498 from their leader oregon slope - oregon bid a escaped wage and income transcript utilizing the "Get Transcript Online" instrumentality astatine IRS.gov.

Taxpayers usually person 3 years to record and assertion refunds earlier the wealth goes to the U.S. Treasury.

Generally the deadline to assertion aged refunds falls astir the April 15 taxation deadline, but this twelvemonth the three-year model for 2020 unfiled returns was postponed to May 17, due to the fact that of the COVID-19 pandemic. But if taxpayers haven't filed a instrumentality for taxation twelvemonth 2021 and 2022, immoderate 2020 refunds would beryllium withheld until they record for those years arsenic good to marque definite they don't owe.

Werfel said "some radical whitethorn not recognize they whitethorn beryllium owed a refund. We promote radical to reappraisal their files and commencement gathering records now, truthful they don't tally the hazard of missing the May deadline."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.