Hey all....have been following this wondering what's up...then something clicked.
This was an issue a couple months ago for several other taxpayers....though there was only one who followed it thru far enough to find out what happened.
One of them went thru painful steps...but since they had purchased Audit Defense.....they followed it thru that way, and it was found that they had their 2022 payment applied to 2023 estimated taxes too.
Myself, I'm pretty sure it's a foul-up at the IRS end...maybe a glitch at one of their processing servers, (or perhaps if they pull a random few for manual review....maybe a human messed up at that point?):
See Here:
Re: Receive CP14 Notice - ACH tax payment made but not applied to 2022 (intuit.com)
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Here's one where it wasn't tracked down, but one reply noted that there were a few similar posts (i.e. I wonder if they too, eventually found their payment was mis-applied to 2023 estimated taxes instead, or maybe just paid and moved on without finding what happened):
I paid my taxes when I submitted my e-file return. l just received a notice from IRS saying I still ...
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