In addition to paying taxes, many people are eagerly awaiting their tax refund check. I am now trying to get the word out to the 331 Travis County taxpayers who are new to the list because they have undeliverable refunds from last year, as well as continuing to reach out to the remaining 171 individuals who still have unclaimed refunds from previous years. Postal Service regulations require that government checks be returned when the taxpayer moves and doesn't file a change of address form or if a person marries and does not have the check addressed to their new name.
Many checks are undeliverable because the address on the tax return is illegible or incorrect.
Sometimes people move and don't file their taxes again so the IRS never gets an updated address. And sometimes people pass away and the executor of their estate doesn't know they have an unclaimed tax refund. It's hard to imagine that the government is passing out money and no one wants it. Current policy prohibits the IRS from publishing the list on their own. People can visit my web site to see if their name, or the names of friends and family members, are on the list.