Missed Tax Payments to Come Off Credit Reports
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Your Money Briefing. Money and Market Stories from The Wall Street Journal. I'm J.R. Whalen in New York. That tax lien on your credit report might be going away soon. We'll have details in a moment, but first here are some money items you need to know. The Wall Street Journal Banking Desk reports Americans are parking more money with the biggest banks than ever before, cementing the bank's dominance of the financial industry less than a decade after the crisis. The three largest U.S. banks, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo have added more than $2.4 trillion in domestic deposits over the past 10 years. That's a 180% increase, and that amount exceeds what the top eight banks had in such deposits combined in 2007.
What announcement previews the removal of tax liens from credit reports?
And the markets team reports measures of investors' bets on a pickup in inflation are falling from recent highs. That's a sign that many believe the tax cuts and increased government spending aren't likely to jolt the U.S. economy for long. The 10-year break-even rate, which tracks investors' expectations... for average annual inflation over the next 10 years, settled Wednesday at 2.08% after hitting a three-year high of 2.16% in February. And the Journal's energy team reports the Trump administration's efforts to jumpstart offshore exploration got off to a weak start, and a big auction of oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico drew few bidders. President Trump's administration offered up enough acres for oil and gas drilling in the Gulf to cover the state of New Mexico on Wednesday, and what Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke billed as the biggest such sale in U.S.
history. But only 1% of the acres drew a bid, and the winners paid an average of $153 an acre, some of the lowest prices of the decade. This is your Money Briefing from The Wall Street Journal. Welcome back, everybody. There's good news for millions of Americans with tax liens on their credit reports. Wall Street Journal reporter Anna Maria Andriotis joins us here to discuss. So, Anna Maria, this is a nice win for consumers with missed tax payments on their record.
That's correct. The three major credit reporting firms in the U.S. have decided that beginning in April, they will be removing tax liens from credit reports. So for people who actually do have liens, they will be removed from their files, from their credit reports. And what that means is that when they are applying for loans going forward, the chances are greater that lenders won't be aware of this issue that they have.
So it's gone forever? No trace? Kaput? Is anything ever kaput?
Well, okay. So the decision at this point is that it's going to be gone at least for the next few years. Okay. And now if lenders decide that, look, because more and more information has been falling off of credit reports. This is not the first time this thing has happened. And if lenders decide, well, look, you know, I... Even though information isn't on credit reports, I want to do my own due diligence and find other ways to see if the loan applicants have tax liens or other negative accounts in their names. They could always look it up.
Yeah, it does put lenders in a tough position because it really increases their exposure to risk, doesn't it?
Yes, because in most cases what lenders do when they are deciding whether to approve loan applicants is looking at credit reports. That's a very big part of their decision-making process, looking at the information on there. In cases where they see that people have tax liens, the chances are pretty high that lenders will not approve them for loans. You remove that tax lien, and all of a sudden the person can look a lot more creditworthy and more likely to repay a debt than they might actually be.
And then the credit reporting firms began removing other blemishes from credit reports last summer.
Right. So basically what's been happening is this is the second time in about nine months that credit reporting firms have decided that they are removing blemishes. negative marks from credit reports. Beginning in this past July, the three major credit reports, Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion began removing civil judgments.
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