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February 25, 2020
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Debt and tax return

  • February 25, 2020
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Last year, my federal and state refund was garnished for debt I owed. I did end up with about 160$ of my federal return. I figured if I had more debt they would have taken it all. I know my state refunds will be garnished because of fees, and until today I wasn’t even aware of how much more debt I had. Are they going to garnish my federal tax return for the money I owe in debt this year as well?

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    March 2, 2020

    TurboTax never knows about offsets to your refund, so we cannot tell you.

     

    https://www.irs.gov/uac/tax-refund-offsets-pay-unpaid-debts

     

     

    Reduced Refund     https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc203

     

     

     NOTE: You can contact the IRS Treasury Offset Program Call Center at 1-800-304-3107 to ask if they have an offset for you on file. TurboTax would not have that information.

     

    https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/tax-payments/who-can-garnish-an-income-tax-refund/L7cPPzDyc

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