{"id":39160,"date":"2016-05-12T20:33:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T20:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/?p=39160"},"modified":"2016-05-12T20:58:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T20:58:41","slug":"head-to-the-post-office-3592-tax-refund-checks-mailed-out-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.viconsortium.com\/?p=39160","title":{"rendered":"Head To The Post Office: 3,592 Tax Refund Checks Mailed Out Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. THOMAS &#8212; In keeping with his pledge that the Department of Finance (D.O.F.) would immediately process checks for tax refunds, Commissioner Valdamier Collens has announced that more than 3,500 tax refund checks related to 2015 filings were delivered to the United States Post Office on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to a press release Government House issued today, adding that the refund checks represent the first batch of 2015 income tax refunds that were transmitted to D.O.F. from the Bureau of Internal Revenue (B.I.R.) earlier this week, Mr. Collens said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are 3,592 checks going out today, totaling more than $10 million,\u201d he said. \u201cProfound gratitude is expressed for Governor Mapp&#8217;s vision and the collaborative efforts of the committed employees of Finance and Bureau of Internal Revenue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Governor Kenneth Mapp <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/business\/tax-refund-checks-for-2015-being-processed-this-week-mapp-administration-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">has credited<\/a><\/span> the territory\u2019s strengthened financial condition for allowing refunds to be paid in a timely manner.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Mr. Collens announced that his office had received the necessary information from the B.I.R. in order to move forward with processing returns, the release concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. THOMAS &#8212; In keeping with his pledge that the Department of Finance (D.O.F.) would immediately process checks for tax refunds, Commissioner Valdamier Collens has announced that more than 3,500 tax refund checks related to 2015 filings were delivered to the United States Post Office on Thursday afternoon. That&#8217;s according to a press release Government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[228,3,11,854,147],"tags":[3364],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Head To The Post Office: 3,592 Tax Refund Checks Mailed Out Today - V.I. 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