# A Taxing Question

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-taxing-question/285455
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [January 18, 2005, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-taxing-question/285455 "2005-01-18T23:43:20Z")
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### Author: ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2005, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-taxing-question/285455/1 "2005-01-18T23:43:20Z")

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I just did a preliminary run of mine and it looks like I’ll be getting an AMAZING amount of money back. I’m able to take the Child Tax Credit and the Additional Child Tax Credit but the refund amount seems too huge, although I’ve checked over this about 5 times now.

Does anybody know of any major changes to the tax system that might have caused my refund to explode this mightily this year?