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The Better Business Bureau (BBB) serving Chicago and Northern Illinois is reminding businesses and consumers to file smart in an effort to keep their tax information secure and avoid tax-related scams.

The good news is that some IRS scammers are headed to prison. The bad news is that new scams keep popping up.

It seems like nearly everyone has gotten one of these IRS scam phone calls. You know, the old "you-owe-us-money-so-give-me-your-personal-information-so-you-won't-go-to-jail" call. I've gotten several, but being aware that it's a scam, I just hung up. A cop in Eau Claire, Wisconsin decided that he'd go me one better and call them back.

It's tax season once again, so keep in mind that you've got about a month to change over from the "wearing of the green" to the "sending of your green" to the government. Woo-hoo.

I've gotten a few calls and emails here at the station telling me about how someone purporting to be from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) called a local resident and told them that the resident was being sued by the IRS for one reason or another. The problem is, the call is BS, and the caller is a scam artist.

If this is the first you've even thought about Tax Deadline Day, then feel free to panic and stress out. I'll wait.

It's crunch time for those of us who haven't even begun our taxes. Good news the due date has been to the 18th, not this Friday the 15th. But why?

As a kid, I always knew when it was tax time. Not by looking at the calendar, but by watching my dad's mood go sour for the week or so he spent spreading all his tax info on our dining room table.

If you were planning to quickly file your tax returns this year in the hopes of getting an big refund check from the state of Illinois, you might want to start making other financial plans. The Illinois Department of Revenue says taxpayers will have to wait until after March 1 to receive income tax refunds...

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