My wife had 2 jobs in 2019. As a result two things happened. Her W4 for each job was off and she paid excess soc sec tax of $1300. Our refund is just barely in the red as a result of the W4 error, but I had the idea that the entire $1300 would be coming back to us. Is that not correct? Has the excess Social security tax withheld actually saved us from paying back $1300 do to the W4 mishap? Hope this makes sense. Basically I can't see what the excess tax paid on line 18d has actually done for our refund.
