After you file

@Humbird You posted to a very long thread that has multiple posts from users who received an IRS notice.   Did you receive such a notice?   Your questions have been about the recovery rebate credit for 2021.   If you did not receive the 3rd stimulus check in 2021 then you can get the recovery rebate credit on line 30 of your Form 1040 when you prepare a 2021 return.   But if you really already received that stimulus check, the IRS knows it and they will reduce your refund by the amount on line 30 when they review your tax return.   So you have to make sure of the answer you give when you are asked if you received that stimulus check.   Check your bank account for deposits of $1400 per person sometime after mid-March of 2021.  And check your online account with the IRS to see if the IRS shows that it was sent to you.  If they sent it and you did not receive it you can have it traced.

 

 

https://www.irs.gov/payments/your-online-account

 

 

LOST THIRD STIMULUS CHECK

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/questions-and-answers-about-the-third-round-economic-impact-payment-top...

 

If you need to trace a payment that the IRS says has been issued to you, mail or fax a completed IRS Form 3911, Taxpayer Statement Regarding Refund.

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