<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p2043en.pdf">https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p2043en.pdf</a> ...This is what the IRS shows, maybe due to every tax payer situation being different in complexity, that they received their refund sooner.
Claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit or the Additional Child Tax Credit
If a taxpayer is claiming the EITC or the ACTC, they can file
their return any time after the filing season begins. However,
by law, the IRS cannot issue refunds before mid-February for
tax returns that claim the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) or
the Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC). Keep in mind that only
a small percentage of total filers will fall into this situation.
While the IRS will process taxpayer returns when they are
received, it cannot issue related refunds before mid-February.
The IRS expects the earliest EITC/ACTC related refunds to be
available in taxpayer bank accounts or on debit cards starting
on Feb 27, 2019, if they chose direct deposit and there are no
other issues with their tax return.
