Path Act 2025 Tax Refund. 27, 2025 — the internal revenue service opened the 2025 tax filing season today and is accepting and processing federal individual tax year 2024 returns. Under the protecting americans from tax hikes (path) act, signed into law in december 2015, the irs cannot issue refunds that include earned income tax credit (eitc).

If you claimed the earned income tax credit (eitc) or the additional child tax credit (actc), you can expect to get your refund by march 3 if: Learn how the path act affects eitc and actc tax refunds in 2025.