The statute of limitations for receiving a tax refund is three years from the filing deadline, and you are way past the filing deadline for 2012. The filing deadline was in mid-April of 2013 so you had until April 2016 to get a refund for a 2012 tax return. But--the IRS always wants you to pay tax due if you owe.
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