@belkatem - can we remove the emotion and go back and review your tax return and what you may have entered into TT?
Every one of these posts comes back to the same two issues: The EIP (Stimulus) and the Child Advance Tax Credit.
In both cases, and this was unique to 2021 tax year, you were asked to enter how much you ALREADY received. if you didn't, that is where all these issues are arising.
The IRS didn't do any favors either because on the Stimulus payments, if you filed joint, they sent out TWO letters to confirm what you had received - one to each spouse. While the amounts were the same on each letter, each letter only represented half the stimulus, they had to be ADDED TOGETHER to get to the accruate result on the tax return.
If you truly didn't receive the stimulus (let's say the check was lost in the mail), the IRS still thinks you received it! and made adjustments on your tax return when you may have truthfully responded that you didn't receive it.
the whole thing is a 'headache', but let's look for the root cause of the issues before stating it's TT's software.... (and I do not work for Intuit nor own any of their stock).
Look at lines 28 (Child tax credit) and line 30 (Recovery Rebate / Stimulus) - that is where the problems are. If you read the news articles, there are millions and millions of errors that the IRS is finding - and I suspect it is not only TT users- it's the complexity and uniqueness of the IRS sending money back in advance of the tax return (meaning the stimulus payments and the advance child tax credit payments)
does that help?
