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Department of Revenue: Individual tax returns delayed to May; refunds expected in weeks amid fraud checks
Summary
Department of Revenue officials told the legislative subcommittee that individual tax returns were moved from April to May after Hurricane Elaine, that processing began last week, refunds typically take 2–6 weeks, and the agency is watching for fraud. No budget request was made.
Hartley Powell, director of the Department of Revenue, told the Legislative Budget Subcommittee that South Carolina’s individual tax filing deadline was moved from April to May because of Hurricane Elaine and that the agency had begun processing returns the prior Monday.
Powell said refunds “take somewhere between 4 and 6 weeks, sometimes even it can be a 2 week turnaround,” and added the…
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