Your self-employment tax was first added to your income tax on line 23 of your form 1040. Then, on line 31 the deferred portion of it was added to your refund, that is where you got credit for it. It was used to reduce your total tax on your tax return, thus increasing your refund, so you do need to pay it back.
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