Can I file federal taxes if I have a warrant for my arrest?

Question

Will it prevent me from getting a return?

Answer 1

Yes !
File your taxes-- you're already looking over one shoulder, you don't want to have to look over both.

Failure to file, is a criminal offense, punishable by penalty or jail time.

The Fed's already have your address -- social security linked address. If they are not parked at your front door now, filing your taxes shouldn't bring them there.

Make life easier for yourself;
- file your taxes
- resolve your warrant (although if this would put you in the slammer for a long time, ... your call)

Answer 2

If you had enough income to be required to file, then you not only can but are required to file. The warrant for your arrest won't prevent you from getting a refund. If you owe money to the government for overdue taxes or defaulted student loans, or owe back child support, your refund could be grabbed and applied to those.

Answer 3

I'm pretty sure you can, I have a warrant and I file every year. But then again it would depend on what the warrant is for. I have a Bench warrant for a different state, and its never bothered me from filing.

Answer 4

If it's a federal warrant, it's possible they'd withhold your return. If it's state, I'm sure you'd get your money.

Not filing returns is a criminal offense. Don't add another warrant, just file them. Can't keep looking over your shoulder forever.

Answer 5

You can and you should or else you may end up having two warrants.

Answer 6

yes

Answer 7

Of course!!

Answer 8

yes,if the authority permits u to pay the tax,othrwise no

Answer 9

Just watch out they are watching your every move.......ever see enemy of the state.