Amend Taxes that I originally owed but now get a refund

[patrrod]

I completed my 2022 taxes using Cash App and owed almost 4k later I found out that I should not have been taxed on a portion of my income because of the difficulty of care. So this year I used TurboTax and saw where I could check the box to exclude that portion. So now I purchased the 2022 Turbo Tax and now get a small refund. My question is will I be send back the almost 4k that I already paid plus the new refund amount? I did not see this when I was going through to amend and not sure if I missed where to enter that I paid those amounts when originally filing.

[KrisD15]

No, when you do an amended return, the program assumes you already got the original refund or paid the original tax. 

If you are getting a refund, that is refunding some of the tax you paid with the original. It is not also returning the first payment.

[patrrod]

Thank you! So how do I get a refund on what I paid and should not have paid?

[PaulaM]

You'll get the refund or overage amount when your amended return is fully process. Amending can take a long time 16-20 weeks on average. @patrrod