The Hemet & San Jacinto Chronicle - April 21st, 2022

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CALIFORNIA STATE

4th stimulus check 2022 schedule

New $1,200 direct payments to be sent out in WEEKS JOSIE RHODES COOK | CONTRIBUTED

whether or not you would need to pay back the IRS if you received a stimulus check for a deceased spouse. In particular, this has been the case under the first federal stimulus package (signed into law in March 2020), worth up to $1,200 per eligible adult. That stimulus round was based on 2018 and 2019 tax returns. But If your spouse died in those years and you received two checks – you might have to repay one back.

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NOTHER batch of stimulus checks worth up to $1,200 is set to go out to thousands of Americans this month. Under California’s Golden State I (GSS 1) and Golden State Stimulus II (GSS II) programs launched in 2021, eligible residents are getting up to $1,100 and $1,200 respectively. In March, the state sent out a batch of almost 62,000 combined stimulus checks under these initiatives. In total, California has issued a total of 12.9million stimulus checks since last year. To qualify for either program, your income must be less than $75,000 and generally have filed 2020 taxes before October 15, 2021.

BILLIONAIRES MAY HAVE USED TAX LOOPHOLES ProPublica also found 270 taxpayers who disclosed $5.7 billion in income collectively and ended up qualifying for stimulus checks. The individuals managed to “deploy deductions at such a massive scale that they qualified for stimulus checks,” the outlet noted. “The wealthy taxpayers who received the stimulus checks got them because they came in under the government’s income threshold,” ProPublica reported. “In fact, they reported way less taxable income than that — even hundreds of millions less — after they used business write-offs to wipe out their gains.” The article noted that those examples of wealthy taxpayers listed negative net incomes on their tax returns.

outlet that both men returned the checks. HOW TO POCKET $7,200 CHILD TAX CREDIT Parents that didn’t receive the advance child tax credit payments in 2021 could receive up to $3,600 per child under the age of six when tax returns are filed this year. This only applies to two children. Recipients will have to meet certain criteria to pocket the maximum amount. REASONS WHY YOU MAY HAVE TO REPAY THE IRS, PART SIX “I knew a lot of people whose spouse’s died in 2018, and when they filed their 2018 return in 2019, they filed as married filing jointly (which is the correct filing status in that situation),” Kari Brummond, a tax preparer at TaxCure, told The Sun earlier this year. She added that those couples including deceased spouses received payments most frequently in the first round of the federal stimulus package – but the IRS has not reached out to that group. So, in that event, it’s not clear if the IRS will reach out to you – but be aware it could happen. REASONS WHY YOU MAY HAVE TO REPAY THE IRS, PART FIVE There is also some confusion on

REASONS WHY YOU MAY HAVE TO REPAY THE IRS, PART FOUR “The IRS is sending out balance due notices with no calculation or explanation analysis,” Dan Herron, a Certified Financial Planner and CPA with Elemental Wealth Advisors, told CNBC last year. Another issue is that the IRS normally informs you on the error notice that you have more than 60 days to respond. If you fail to, the adjustment is final and you lose the right to file a petition in the US Tax Court. However, more than 5million taxpayers were sent a math error notice last year without the 60day language being included. As a result, the IRS resent some letters with clear language, including the time you have to respond. REASONS WHY YOU MAY HAVE TO REPAY THE IRS, PART THREE Between January 1 and July 15, the IRS sent roughly nine million math-error notices, according to the Taxpayer Advocate Service. Of the notices, which typically reflect adjustments, 7.4million were related to stimulus checks. Math errors could signal a number of issues provided by the claimer such as the wrong Social Security number, incomplete information, or wrong filing status. But there is one problem: the IRS has been said to be sending math error notices with a lack of information.

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PALMS SPRINGS

Music is All Around Us A walk on a trail in Joshua Tree National Park becomes a chance to listen carefully to the way music interacts with the desert environment JIM POWERS | CONTRIBUTED

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here is only one box that Kennedy Verrett wants to be put in, and that’s the one he creates. Which makes this week’s SoundCheckEarth event not only an opportunity to take a listen to the world as Verrett does, but more importantly experience sound like you never have before. You’ll walk a half-mile path in Joshua Tree National Park where you might see a bassoon player sitting underneath a Joshua Tree, or a cello player perched on boulders. All of this has been choreographed by Verrett, three performances a day, April 22-23. Currently, times for April 22 are 6 a.m., 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., free and open to the public. April 23 performances will be held at 2:30 p.m., 4 p.m., and 6:06 p.m. This collaboration between Harrison House and the park takes place at Cap Rock, which is about a 30-minute drive from either the Joshua Tree Visitor Center or the Oasis Visitor Center in Twentynine Palms. Palm Springs Life spoke further with Verrett about how he came to Joshua Tree, how SoundCheck Earth originated, and why it's im-

portant. HOW DID SOUNDCHECKEARTH GET STARTED? I got a residency at Harrison House in 2020. So on Sundays, Eva Soltes (founder/director of Harrison House) and I would take walks where we would create videos during Covid. So on one Sunday, I took her on a sound walk. I've been doing a lot of research in sound ecology and just experimenting with ways to present music. I showed her how I find inspiration from just the landscape and using the sounds that are available to us to create music and not necessarily like a violin or a traditional instrument that we think of when we think of music. So I just pointed out looking at the shapes of the mountains and the rocks, you can use that for melodic contours. She's like, "You know what? We have to do this in the park." And I said, "Okay, I'm down." And she invited the park's superintendent, David Smith, to come. And we talked to him about it and he was immediately on board.

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BILLIONAIRES RECEIVED STIMULUS PAYMENTS ProPublica discovered that 18 billionaires received stimulus payments in the spring of 2020, citing IRS records. For instance, George Soros and his son, Robert, reportedly each received stimulus payments. Soros is worth $8.6 billion. Their representatives told the

Under California’s Golden State I (GSS 1) and Golden State Stimulus II (GSS II) programs launched in 2021, eligible residents are getting up to $1,100 and $1,200 respectively. | Photo by Freepik.

During a SoundCheckEarth rehearsal last year, Laszlo Mezo on cello and Janie Cowan on contrabass perform. | Photography By Eva Soltes/Harrison House.

Putin Sizzles, Ukraine Suffers, We Come Through RUSTY STRAIT | SENIOR REPORTER

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RIVERSIDE COUNTY

Riverside Man Killed in Collision Between Scooter, SUV RIVERSIDE COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT | CONTRIBUTED

A 48-year-old man was killed when his scooter and an SUV

collided at a Riverside intersection, authorities said Tuesday. David Ducoing of Riverside was fatally injured at about 8:15

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he world seems to have suddenly awakened to the fact that we are in a proxy war with Russia. President Zelensky of Ukraine, in trying to save his own country, has been the front runner to alert us that we might be next. Because of his courage and leadership, he is, without doubt the most popular man in the free world. His refusal to bow down to a ruthless Dictator has garnered him more laurels than any man in the modern world. While he is the buffer in a proxy war between Russia and the United States, we do our best to help. That brings me to a local contribution that might have gone unnoticed if it weren’t for nosy reporters like yours truly. I discovered that Golden

Era Productions (as always, has pitched in to help out with the situation. They have donated a total of 122 boxes of some very nice clothing articles for Ukrainian Refugees in California and Europe. Thirty-one boxes were donated to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Los Angeles for the thousands of Ukrainian refugees that are crowding across the border at Tijuana. Father Vasilos Basille Saucuir tells us that there are so many refugees that are attempting to cross into the United States from Tijuana, that the city has donated a building to temporarily house them while the wait to be processed to enter, which can often take several days. The good Father Vasilos is also working with other Orthodox

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Distracted Driving Awareness & Car Seat Safety Event Saturday, April 23 | 8:00 am to 1:00 pm 2911 Adams St., Riverside 92504


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