What you may not realize is that as soon as you began to prepare your tax return, the software was giving you the $1400 and it was shown on that "refund monitor" -----but when you entered that you received it already, the software had to reconcile the payment you received, You cannot get it twice---so it looked to you like you "lost" $1400. You did not lose it, you are not being taxed on it ---you just cannot receive it twice.
And as always----do not take that "refund monitor" on your screen seriously until ALL of your information has been entered. That monitor had many people expecting much bigger refunds than they were going to get and then when the questions came to reconcile the amounts already received --- those big refunds were gone.
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