IRS: Mainers Owed $3.7 Million in Unclaimed Tax Refunds

Maine Public | By Ed Morin

Published March 13, 2015 at 3:39 PM EDT

WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service says approximately 4,500 Maine taxpayers are owed about $3.7 million in unclaimed tax refunds from 2011.

IRS spokesman Mark Hanson says taxpayers have until April 15 to file a 2011 return and claim any outstanding refund.

"If you had a job and you had federal income taxes withheld, even if you were not required to file a return, you may want to go ahead and do so," Hanson says. "That way you can get the refund money that's rightfully yours."

Hanson says the median unclaimed Maine refund from 2011 is $645.

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Ed Morin

Ed is a Maine native who spent his early childhood in Livermore Falls before moving to Farmington. He graduated from Mount Blue High School in 1970 before going to the University of Maine at Orono where he received his BA in speech in 1974 with a broadcast concentration. It was during that time that he first became involved with public broadcasting. He served as an intern for what was then called MPBN TV and also did volunteer work for MPBN Radio.

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