Georgia tax rebates should be arriving in your accounts soon

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — If Gov. Brian Kemp’s calendar is to be believed, eligible Georgia taxpayers should start receiving their first spherical of tax rebates this week.

The Georgia Department of Revenue has confirmed it has begun issuing surplus tax refund checks to taxpayers.

Kemp signed HB 1000 into law on March 20, 2026. At the time, he stated Georgians would start receiving their refunds inside 5 to 6 weeks… which suggests proper about now.

Here’s the way it works

• Single filers will get $250.
• Joint filers will get $500.
• The head of family will get $375.
• Those who filed returns in 2024 and 2025 are eligible, however they have to not owe any cash to the Georgia Department of Revenue.
• Check your eligibility here.

Previous particular refunds have been issued in 2022, 2023, and 2025. HB 1000 marks the fourth time Kemp has signed a tax rebate.

In his finish state of the state address Earlier this yr, delivered to each Georgia representatives and senators, Kemp proposed a funds that features one other $1 billion tax rebate that, he stated, “will return or save the average filer $250 and a married couple up to $500.”

Kemp is presently in the final yr of his second gubernatorial time period and has made no agency bulletins relating to his personal political future, having rejected nationwide GOP leaders’ name to problem Democratic US Sen. Jon Ossoff this fall.

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