Your refund is the difference between what you owe (calculated on your tax return based on income, deductions, credits and dependents), and what you paid (either from withholding or by making estimated payments). If you are not getting a refund this year, it is because what you paid balances what you owed. To get a refund, you would have to pay more into the system (such as by changing your W-4 to have more tax taken out of each paycheck.) That means less money to spend each week, but a larger refund at the end of the year. Kind of like a forced savings account that pays zero interest.
To see why you are getting less of a refund this year, you would need to print both 2022 and 2023 returns and compare them side by side. For some reason, you owe more tax, or have fewer credits and deductions, or paid less withholding.
