Return wrongly calculated

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The IRS calculated our income much higher than TurboTax which changed my refund from $2451 to $291. My question is how could TurboTax miscalculate the social security income on our return?

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JohnB5677

Alumni - Intuit

Please clarify the problem:

Did you get Social Security?
What is your age?
Did you have other income?
Did the IRS give you more detail?

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SteamTrain

Level 15

There were some people...earlier this year, who accidentally indicated they were living in a country with certain tax agreements, whereby your SS wouldn't be taxed by the IRS...but by the country you live in. There is a follow-up page where you may have quickly flashed thru and accidentally hit the wrong button where it asked

" Are you a U.S. citizen living abroad in one of these countries?"

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The only other thing I can think of is if you missed entering some of your Tax-Exempt income from state "Muni" bonds that ends up on line 2a of your form 1040.

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