More than 53 million tax filers used at least one of President Donald Trump’s signature tax breaks this filing season, as the average refund climbed above $3,400, according toTreasury Department datareleased on Tax Day.

The figures mark the first filing season since the Republican-backed \"Working Families Tax Cuts\" were passed in July 2025 and implemented by the IRS, withTrump administrationofficials touting broad uptake and increased tax relief.

Wednesday is the deadline to file taxes for the 2025 earning year, and the president promised the \"largest tax refund season in U.S. history\" thanks to his One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

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As of April 14, the average refund rose 11% compared to the previous filing season, Trump's Treasury Department claims. Filers who used at least one of the new provisions saw an average tax cut of about $800, the new report found.

The data points to widespread use of several provisions in the new law.

About 25 million filers claimed a deduction for overtime pay, while roughly 6 million claimed ataxbreak on tips. An estimated 30 million seniors took advantage of an enhanced deduction, and approximately 34 million families claimed an expanded child tax credit.

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Another 105 million filers used the expanded standard deduction, while about 1 million deducted interest on car loans for new American-made vehicles.

Treasury also said more than 5 million \"Trump Accounts\" have been opened, including about 1.2 million eligible for a $1,000 pilot program contribution.

The accounts, created under President Donald Trump’s sweeping One Big Beautiful Bill Act, are government-backed investment funds for children designed to grow over time.

They function similarly to traditional long-terminvestmentvehicles, but with rules tailored to protect young savers.

Treasury SecretaryScott Bessentsaid the results show the administration’s tax policy is delivering meaningful relief to workers and families.

\"Under President Trump, we uphold the foundational principle that hardworking Americans should be rewarded, not punished with tax hikes,\" Bessent said in a statement included in the data release.

He touted that taxpayers are \"keeping more of what they earn and seeing their paychecks go further.\"

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With Tax Day on Wednesday, here are some points people should know about how the so-called “working families tax cuts” will affect their 2025 tax filing season.\n\nNo taxes on tips, overtime, or auto loan interests\nWorking people can claim deductions of up to $25,000 on cash tips. This applies to single taxpayers with a modified adjusted gross income of up to $150,000 and to joint filers with a modified adjusted gross income of up to $300,000, reduced by $100 per every $1,000 of income above that cap. It applies to any tips received on or before Dec. 31, 2024.\n\nPeople can also claim deductions of up to $12,500 on overtime for a single taxpayer. This goes up to $25,000 for joint filers. The same modified adjusted gross income and phaseout applies as it does for the no tax on tips policy.\n\nThe One Big Beautiful Bill Act also allows filers to claim deductions of up to $10,000 on auto loan interests for vehicles produced in the United States. This applies to cars purchased between Dec. 31, 2024, and before Jan. 1, 2029. The bill also ended the electric vehicle tax credit on Sept. 30, 2025.\n\nIncreased standard deduction\nThe law also extends and enhances the increased standard deduction for taxpayers. According to the Bipartisan Policy Center, people can now file for a standard deduction of $15,750 for single taxpayers and $31,500 for joint filers, up $750 and $1,500, respectively.\n\nChild tax credit and adoption credit\nTrump’s hallmark tax legislation also increased the child tax credit by $200 to $2,200.\n\nThe bill further enhanced the adoption credit, making it partially refundable. Compared to the nonrefundable adoption credit in place before, now taxpayers can file to make up to $5,000 of the credit refundable.\n\nDeductions for taxpayers over 65\nThe One Big Beautiful Bill Act also allows people 65 and older to file for a deduction of up to $6,000. The deduction will last each tax year until Jan. 1, 2029.\n\nThere are several other ways filers could be affected, including through the Trump accounts for children and deductions for increased state and local taxes.",{"_307":251,"_308":362,"_309":363},"8e6c6bab-2548-4e11-99db-5ed46137b245",{"_27":362,"_40":364,"_253":365,"_42":366,"_278":367,"_314":367,"_29":285,"_315":368,"_317":369,"_271":39,"_80":-5,"_82":118,"_232":370,"_307":251,"_335":-5},"It's Tax Day. Ahead of the deadline, 53 million filers used new Trump tax exemptions, Treasury says","As Tax Day approaches, the Trump administration reports that millions of Americans have utilized new tax exemptions. These breaks include tax-free tips and overtime, exemptions on car loan interest, deductions for seniors, and child savings accounts called Trump Accounts. 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FIRST ON FOX: On the deadline for Americans to file their taxes, Senate Republicans are targeting Democrats for voting against tax cuts the GOP passed and PresidentDonald Trumpsigned into law last summer.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), the Senate GOP’s campaign arm, on Wednesday launched ads in seven key Senate battleground races highlighting how \"Democrat candidates opposed the Working Families Tax Cuts that led to an 11% increase in Americans’ tax refunds this year.\"

The spots, released on Tax Day 2026, were first shared with Fox News Digital.

The digital ads come as the GOP works to protect its slim 53-47 Senate majority inthe midtermswhen the party in power typically faces political headwinds and loses congressional seats. The GOP also faces a rough political climate fueled by persistent inflation, rising gas prices tied to what polls show is an unpopular war with Iran, and Trump’s underwater approval ratings.

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But Republicans have for weeks spotlighted thetax cuts, which they insist will give them a political boost with voters in the midterms.

\"Working families across the country have enough on their plates, but Democrats like Jon Ossoff go to Washington and fight to take more money out of their pockets,\" NRSC Communications Director Joanna Rodriguez argued, as she pointed to Ossoff, the first-term senator from Georgia whom Republicans view as the most vulnerable Democrat seeking re-election this year.

Rodriguez also emphasized that \"President Trump and Senate Republicans are working tirelessly to deliver for working families, including higher take-home pay and lower taxes.\"

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The spots, backed by a modest buy, will also run in Alaska, Iowa, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Ohio.

The narrator in the ads emphasized that \"President Trump andSenate Republicansdelivered real savings for hard-working families\" and accused Democrats of \"opposing tax cuts for first responders, rejecting tax savings for service workers, and denying more money for senior citizens.\"

The tax cuts were a key component of Republicans’ massive domestic policy measure, which passed nearly entirely along party lines in the GOP-controlled House and Senate.

The law is stuffed full of Trump's 2024 campaign trail promises and second-term priorities, including extending thepresident's signature 2017 tax cutsand eliminating taxes on tips and overtime pay.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota, speaking on the Senate floor Wednesday morning, said, \"I suspect Tax Day doesn't rank high on Americans' favorite days of the year, but I'd wager that a lot more Americans were pleasantly surprised this year when they went to file their taxes because thanks to Republicans Working Families Tax Cuts bill, a lot more Americans kept a lot more of their hard-earned money this year.\"

Democrats have criticized the tax cuts, arguing they disproportionately benefit the wealthy and corporations.

Earlier this year, DSCC Chair Sen.Kirsten Gillibrandtold Fox News Digital that due to the \"very harmful climate that President Trump is creating, we have all the makings of a blue wave.\"

The NRSC’s ads targeting Democrats follow positive spots it released last month spotlighting \"the success of the Working Families Tax Cuts.\"

And the NRSC points to internal polling that it says shows that an overwhelming majority of voters are more likely to support candidates that fight for Republican economic initiatives.

But other surveys indicate that Americans are far from pleased with the amount they pay in taxes.

A record 70% of voters questioned in aFox News national pollconducted late last month said the taxes they pay are \"too high,\" marking an 11-point increase from a year earlier, and the highest level of dissatisfaction since the question was first asked in 2004.

The new ads from the NRSC are part of a major push by the GOP this week to spotlight the tax cuts.

On Tuesday, as Fox News Digital first reported, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the House GOP's campaign arm,launched ads targeting 28potentially vulnerable Democrats in the midterms for voting against the tax cuts.

SpeakerMike Johnsonheld a tax cut event on the Capitol steps on Wednesday morning. And hours earlier, in an interview on Fox Business' \"Mornings with Maria,\" Trump touted to host Maria Bartiromo that \"the refunds are really significant, and it makes it less complicated to do your tax return. Much less complicated.\"

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Roughly 6 million people claimed the \"no tax on tips\" break, 21 million claimed the overtime deduction and 30 million older Americans claimed the enhanced senior deduction. According to a March survey of 1,200 taxpayers by the Bipartisan Policy Center, about a third of respondents said they received tipped income, overtime pay or both.\nLast year, 104 million taxpayers, or 63% of filers, received refunds, according to the IRS. So far this year, nearly 70 million filers have received tax refunds, agency data shows. Refunds will continue going out after Tax Day, but Lautz said he expects the average refund size to remain relatively steady. Investment bank Piper Sandler earlier this year projected that tax refunds would increase by as much as $1,000 in 2026. Don Schneider, deputy head of U.S. policy at Piper Sandler, called that larger amount a \"hypothetical maximum\" that assumes all filers get a refund. The $106 billion in retroactive tax relief from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act he projects will flow to Americans this year won't just show up in the form of tax refunds — it will also lower what people owe in taxes, he noted. \"If we're just going to fixate on the refunds themselves or the average size, we're going to miss half of the story,\" Schneider told CBS News. \"So we need to look at the reduction in taxes that people otherwise owe. And all of this is suggestive of tax relief probably being stronger than expected when we consider more overtime, more tips, etcetera.\nAs of March 24, 14% of U.S. taxpayers reported receiving a \"significantly\" larger refund this year, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center's taxpayer survey. Many Americans already have a sense of how to use the cash. Over one-third of Americans plan to use their IRS refund to reduce their debt, while about 13% expect to put the money toward savings, according to a Bank of America Global Research survey. Some may also end up using it for everyday expenses like gas, which has surged by $1.14 per gallon as the Iran war drives up global oil prices. As of Tuesday, the national average for a gallon of regular gas was $4.12, according to AAA. Economists from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research estimate that the average U.S. household will spend an additional $740 on gas this year due to the jump in global oil prices, double the average increase in refund sizes so far this year.",[],"selectedArticleImage","rootArticleImageUrl","consensusHtml","tweets",[],"userSchema","relatedArticles",[310,407,385,363,339],"actionData","errors"]

Trump Tax Cuts Result in Average Refunds Over $3,400, Treasury Says

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