@joelmarcia It sounds like you are very confused. You need to re-read the replies you have already gotten in this thread. You seem to have the mistaken idea that the IRS will pay the tax you owe to MO because you paid sales tax in MO when you purchased a car. That is not going to happen.
If you owe tax due to MO---as shown on your MO tax return---then you either have to write a check to MO, get a money order and mail it to MO, or pay MO by using a credit or debit card on the MO tax website. The IRS is not paying MO for you.
As to whether you are getting a federal tax refund--look on your federal Form 1040. If you are getting a federal refund the refund is on line 35a. That refund will go to you---either to your mailing address or to your bank account if you chose direct deposit for your refund. The IRS will not send your federal refund to MO to pay whatever you owe to MO.
When you prepare your tax return you have to enter all of the information from your W-2 exactly as it appears. The federal tax that was withheld by your employer is shown in box 2. The MO state tax withheld by your employer is shown in box 17. You do not change anything about the way you enter that information. The information on your W-2 has nothing to do with the sales tax you paid for a car.
Do you have any other itemized deductions to enter like mortgage interest or property taxes you paid? If you do not have such things to enter, then, sorry but the amount you paid in sales tax to MO when you bought the car has no effect at all on your tax refund. You will not get a refund for the sales tax from the IRS or from MO.
Please re-read the replies above that explain in more detail how using itemized deductions on your federal tax return works. If you do not have enough itemized deductions then you will simply get your standard deduction instead. If you get your standard deduction, then that sales tax for the car does not change anything for you.
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