Your refund may be different if you used the Refund Processing Service to pay your TurboTax Online fees. If you did, your TurboTax fee plus the additional processing fee is deducted from your federal tax refund.
Some taxpayers, regardless of tax preparation method, may see a discrepancy in their tax refund amount. The most common reason for this is a refund offset.
All or part of a taxpayers refund may have been used (offset) to pay
off past-due federal tax, state income tax, state unemployment
compensation debts, child support, spousal support, or other federal
nontax debts, such as student loans.Taxpayers may also see a change in
their refund amount because the IRS made a change to their tax return.
Taxpayers
will receive a notice explaining the refund offset. The notice will
reflect the original refund amount, your offset amount, the agency
receiving the payment, and the address and telephone number of the
agency. The IRS Where’s My Refund?https://www.irs.gov/Refunds will also reflect the reasons for the refund offset when it relates to a change in your tax return.
More
information about refund offsets can be found in the following IRS Tax
Topic: Tax Topic 203 - Refund Offsets for Unpaid Child Support, Certain
Federal and State Debts, and Unemployment Compensation Debts.https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc203.html
The IRS Where's My Refund tool will contain a disclaimer if your refund may have been offset.
You'll get an explanatory letter from the government if your refund differs from what was on your filed return.
