There is not a ''unemployment tax refund'' for 2020. Here is what happened. A lot of people collected unemployment in 2020. Unemployment income is generally taxable income. However, in 2020, the IRS allowed the first $10,200 of unemployment compensation to be 'tax-free'. If you filed early and did not get the tax break when you filed, the IRS adjusted those returns and refunded taxpayers without the need for an amended tax return being filed. If you filed after they made the change, TurboTax was updated to provide the tax exclusion, so no amending is necessary.
So, it is unlikely you need to amend. If your total income was below the filing threshold, you would not have had a tax liability anyway and would have been refunded any tax withheld from your unemployment.
You will need to look at your tax return and refund to determine whether or not you should be expecting anything in the way of an ''unemployment tax refund'' or if there is a need to contact them. Look at your Form 1040 from 2020, how much unemployment was reported as taxable income on Line 8? Also, if you did not have federal income tax withheld from your unemployment payments, there is nothing to refund. Were federal taxes withheld?
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