Sometimes a carry-over credit can show up immediately on the next year's tax return.
BUT
Yes, 50,000 is a bit (waaaaaaay) too much for normal situations.
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I have seen strange things like this though, for US folks working in an EU country. If the person filling in their tax return has their computer's regional settings set some EU country, the normal US monetary punctuation is reversed...and that leads to horrible number errors. A $500.00 carryover credit in US punctuation is 500comma00 in EU numerical punctuation, and the comma screws up the software and ends up as 50,000.00 US$$
$500?? A dependent tax credit? A home energy credit carrryover?
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Make sure your regional setting for your computer is set to the USA...no matter if you are now.
Or perhaps a really screwed up 2019 tax file....or the wrong one.
____________*Answers are correct to the best of my knowledge when posted, but should not be considered to be legal or official tax advice.*
