# Got my federal refund today

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-my-federal-refund-today/808415>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 8, 2018, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-my-federal-refund-today/808415 "2018-02-08T05:08:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-my-federal-refund-today/808415/21 "2018-02-13T19:17:54Z")

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> [@AllShookDown](#):
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> Federal 1040A filed with TaxAct 1/22, refund received 1/30. State filed 1/31 directly with the Wisconsin DOR…still waiting.

Update: Wisconsin refund received electronically 2/13.

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**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-my-federal-refund-today/808415/22 "2018-02-14T02:20:33Z")

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> [@suranyi](#):
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> I don’t know how I can plan things so carefully. My mutual funds paid a distribution of multiple tens of thousands of dollars on the last business day of the year. How can anyone plan their taxes around that?

I wonder why it is not possible to have the brokerage withhold 15%. It would solve a lot of problems in this regard, but it’s just never done. There’s a spot on the 1099-DIV to put withheld Federal tax, but I have absolutely never seen it be any number other than 0. And I look at hundreds of such 1099s a year (Ok, it’s only the start of the second year. Still, a LOT). Apparently that box is only used for backup withholding, which is done when they don’t have a TIN (EIN or SSN) for you, and is mostly for foreigners from what it sounds like (who may not have had one when they were first requested it)

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**Author:** ![Sveltington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@Sveltington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sveltington)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-my-federal-refund-today/808415/23 "2018-02-14T13:39:31Z")

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I filed online 2/12 around 11:30 PM using H&R Block tax software. The returns were accepted by both the IRS and CT by 3 AM 2/13. Previous years the auto deposit has arrived within one week. For the first time in 39 years I did not have enough deductions to itemize.

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