Question

Received a lower refund than your software told me (?)

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
April 22, 2022
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Hello Turbotax

Your program told me that I was supposed to receive a $3,658.00 tax refund.

Today, I only received $2,258.00, $1400.00 less than expected.

Why is that?

Note: I never received my third $1400.00 Biden check and I said so on my return.

Why would not only NOT send me the original $1,400.00 then take that same amount out of my tax refund?

Thank you for your clarification.

Mr. Braux

DoninGA

Employee

If your refund is short $1,400 then that is because you said you did not receive the 3rd stimulus payment and the IRS has records that show you were sent the 3rd stimulus payment so they removed the $1,400 Recovery Rebate Credit that was entered on Form 1040 Line 30.

Go to this IRS website for your tax account to see if the 3rd stimulus payment is entered - https://www.irs.gov/payments/your-online-account

If you checked your bank account in the March - May 2021 timeframe and there is not a $1,400 EIP3 payment from the IRS then go to this IRS website for how to start a trace on the payment - https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/questions-and-answers-about-the-third-economic-impact-payment-topic-j-payment-issued-but-lost-stolen-destroyed-or-not-received