Without looking at your return it is impossible to know why your refund is less this year.
Your employer withhold taxes based on the information reported by you on the W-4 form.
There are many reasons that your refund could be less than what you expected, such as:
- Your Income increased but you didn't adjust you withholding.
- You did not qualified for the full amount of the Child Tax Credit. If you don't have any Tax liability you will only receive the additional Child Tax Credit.
- You changed your Filing Status.
- You didn't qualify for the Earned Income credit. When you qualify, the credit amount will go up as you earn more income, but once you earn too much, it will go down eventually to zero. TurboTax will figure out exactly how much you’ll receive..
- Received unemployment benefits, but didn't have any taxes withheld.
I recommend that you make a line by line comparison with last year's return to see what is different this year.
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