Under certain circumstances the IRS can take your refund without notice. One of those circumstances involves unpaid child support. Still, the law is quite specific on the conditions.
Yes, if you already have a payment arrangement with the IRS but have a refund due, they will take the refund. If you have a balance due, they will apply your tax refund to this balance.
No its not taxed. When you receive your refund, you will notice that their nothing withheld from your refund of any sort. You definitely do not have to report your refund to the IRS-its your money that you earned.
21 Days
They won't get it from the IRS....except for something like child support.
Yes, unfortunately.
Yes, if you already have a payment arrangement with the IRS but have a refund due, they will take the refund. If you have a balance due, they will apply your tax refund to this balance.
No its not taxed. When you receive your refund, you will notice that their nothing withheld from your refund of any sort. You definitely do not have to report your refund to the IRS-its your money that you earned.
No. The IRS can only offset your refund if they have already made an assessment against you.
Yes, the IRS is entitled to dock a refund for a variety of things, including court ordered debt.
21 Days
They won't get it from the IRS....except for something like child support.
So you were expecting a tax refund from the IRS after you filed a tax return. Insteasd of getting your refund, the IRS sent you a letter saying that your refund was used (garnished) to satisfy your back tax debt. What is going on? This means that you have a back tax liablility with the IRS and the IRS will take your refund to satidfy that debt. If you got your refund check garnished and you were unaware you owed the IRS, you need to take care of this situation fast. The IRS can start enforced collections against you and go as far as garnishment of your pay and levy your bank accounts. You can find out more at wallysworldoftaxes.blogspot.com.
Yes, unfortunately.
The IRS does offer a free taz refund calculator. If you vist their website, you should be able to quickly find what you are looking for without a problems!
Yes if you owe the IRS money your tax refund will be offset, and usually if they are aware that you owe them money, they will offset it immediately.
You should contact your local IRS about this matter take the duplicate refund check with you.
It is hard to say without more information. But if you had the same problems as before, they could and might.