Maine Tax Professionals

12/24/2025

Happy Holidays from Kendra and Suzanne at Maine Tax Professionals!

10/01/2025

Mandatory Changes to How the IRS Issues Refunds and Receives Payments

The U.S. government changed how it sends and receives payments. Starting September 30, 2025, federal payments, including tax refunds, will no longer be issued by paper check. The government will also stop accepting paper checks for payments to federal agencies, including tax payments. Please note that once the IRS accepts your tax return, we cannot update your direct deposit information.

Refunds

• Paper check refunds are being phased out: This transition began on September 30, 2025, and will be fully implemented for the upcoming tax season.
• Electronic refunds are now standard: For your 2025 tax return, the IRS will issue refunds by direct deposit or another secure electronic method.
• Options for unbanked individuals: If you do not have a bank account, the IRS and U.S. Treasury will provide alternative electronic options, such as prepaid debit cards and digital wallets, as long as a routing and account number are available.

Payments

• Payments MUST be sent electronically. Various electronic payment options are available at https://www.irs.gov/payments. We HIGHLY recommend setting up an IRS payment account before filing your taxes to ensure you are prepared to make any required payments.

More information can be found at https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/modernizing-payments-to-and-from-americas-bank-account

Executive Order 14247 establishes a government-wide directive to transition to the use of electronic transfers for disbursing federal payments and collecting funds owed to the government.

03/29/2025

Maine Tax Professionals will be opening at noon today. Stay safe everyone!

03/20/2025

Maine Tax alert. Fraudulent tax returns are on the rise in every state and Maine is no exception. This is a ongoing known issue that increases every year as new technology makes it easier to steal identities from all kinds of sources. The following is a video to help you if you receive a letter from the State of Maine that says that someone has filed a fraudulent return on your behalf. Before you panic it is stated that if you do not go in and identify that the return is valid that they will assume that it is not a valid return and reject it. This is not a new thing! This is a people are thieves thing and it is made easier and easier to steal this stuff every year!

In this video, we’re going to show you how to respond to a request from Maine Revenue Services to verify your identity“These videos use example numbers for t...

02/13/2025

Maine Tax Professionals will be closed today. Stay safe everyone!

02/06/2025

Maine Tax Professionals will be closing early today. Stay safe everyone!

12/19/2024

Happy holidays from Maine Tax Professionals!

11/21/2024

As a reminder the usual annul report scam is going around. Please contact your registered clerk if you get one of these letters before you try to file them.

Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is warning Maine corporations and non-profits to watch out for a misleading solicitation they may have received in the mail which offer to file annual reports on their behalf, for a $210 fee.

08/09/2024

For the second year in a row Maine Tax Professionals has been voted second place in the Accounting/ Cpa /Tax Company category of the The Windham Eagle choice awards! We would like to thank all of you who voted for us. We appreciate the support of our community and look forward to continuing to serve you in the future. Kendra and Suzanne would also like to thank our fantastic hardworking staff for all the work they do.

04/10/2024

On April 4, 2024 the IRS and State of Maine announced tax relief for taxpayers impacted by severe storms for the January 2024 flooding in Maine and Rhode Island. Various Maine counties income tax and payment deadlines have been extended:

Extended to - July 15 are the following Counties: Cumberland, Hancock, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo, Washington, and York counties.

Extended to - June 17 are the following Counties: Androscoggin, Franklin, Kennebec, Oxford, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset

Aroostook still has a due date of April 17.

Find disaster tax relief information and resources.

04/06/2024

EDIT: This has now been fixed and we can receive emails again!

Maine Tax Professionals is experiencing difficulties with it's email system. We can still receive all information through our intuit portal, drop off, or via mail. We will update this post as soon as it is repaired.