Everybody’s situation is different.. While we typically estimate withholding and have done a great job of it (one year getting a $8 fed/$4 state refund), this year changed things up for me..
I worked overseas in 2019-2020 and I came back to the states in May 2020, mainly because of COVID precautions, and the IRS provided an exemption for workers who expected to be abroad for all of 2020 but came home because of COVID fears and gave us the tax-free exemption as if I had worked there all year… So my relatively smallish refund ballooned into a giant refund because I didn’t even know the IRS provided an exemption for workers who left other countries…
And I’m sure that’s a contributing factor to why my refund is going to continue to be held up, even though it’s been over a month since I filed.
