# Refund from IRS thousands of dollars larger than expected

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refund-from-irs-thousands-of-dollars-larger-than-expected/537158>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 23, 2010, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refund-from-irs-thousands-of-dollars-larger-than-expected/537158 "2010-04-23T23:05:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![SmartAlecCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SmartAlecCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAlecCat)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refund-from-irs-thousands-of-dollars-larger-than-expected/537158/21 "2010-04-24T10:49:48Z")

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We got a huge tax refund, in large part because of the impact of the depressed economy on income. We were still making estimated payments based on the previous years much higher income…

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**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refund-from-irs-thousands-of-dollars-larger-than-expected/537158/22 "2010-04-24T13:41:09Z")

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> [@Drum\_God](#):
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> I just popped in to say that I would like **Lok** to do my taxes. I used TurboTax and end up owing about $1300 in addition to the withholding my wife and I already paid. This is in addition to the $800ish I still owe from 2008. I would really appreciate a $4000 error in our favor.
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> And I voted for the Democrats. (And would again, too.)

I doubt I would be much help. I knew about the various credits, but I used an online program similar to TurboTax and it put them in automatically. I would guess that TurboTax did the same for you, it didn’t miss much of my credits and such when I was using it.

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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/refund-from-irs-thousands-of-dollars-larger-than-expected/537158/23 "2010-04-24T13:54:56Z")

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> [@suranyi](#):
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> You’ll probably get a letter from the IRS in a few weeks explaining why they corrected your return, and what the additional refund came from. Don’t worry about it until then. Actually, don’t worry about it at all, but when you get the letter all the speculation will end.

A few years back I got a check for the refund I was expecting(about $2000), but then a month later I got \*another \* check for about $2400. No letter, no explanation. I held off cashing it for a couple months in case there was some mistake and the IRS was going to show up at my door demanding it back, but nothing happened so I cashed it.

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