The IRS and State Departments of Revenue are separate entities and do not collect for each other. The IRS will not issue your refund to the state to day any balance due, the IRS does not know your state tax situation.
Without looking at your return it is impossible to know why your state is so different.
These are the most common things that effect your refund or balance due:
- Change in Filing Status;
- Change in dependents claimed;
- No longer have a child, under age 17, to claim the Child Tax Credit
- The amount of federal and/or state withholding;
- Income based credits, such as the Earned Income credit;
- Tax bracket changes
Here is a TurboTax Help Article that will give you more information.
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