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You will need to contact the IRS for information. It might be easiest to set up an account with them.   IRS Individual Online Account   Taxpayers with a Social Security number or an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number can create or access their IRS Individual Online Account to get information they need to file their return. With an IRS Individual Online Account, people can: View balance owed, payment history and schedule payments. Cancel scheduled payments. Get transcripts. View or create payment plans. See digital copies of some IRS notices. View key data from their most recently filed tax return, including adjusted gross income. Validate bank accounts and save multiple accounts, eliminating the need to re-enter bank account information every time they make a payment. View, approve and electronically sign power of attorney and tax information authorizations from their tax professional. 

Once your return is filed, TurboTax has no control over the processing or the timing when the IRS/State releases your refund.    The IRS states that most federal tax refunds are issued within 21 days of acceptance, however, some may take longer if they require additional review. Also, by law, the IRS cannot issue EITC or ACTC refunds before mid-February. This applies to your entire refund, not just the portion related to those specific credits.   Here are a few FAQs to help you track your refund: When will I get my federal tax refund? How do I track my state refund? Why does Where's My Refund say "approved" but TurboTax still says "accepted"? Why do some refunds take longer than others? What if my IRS refund is taking longer than 21 days?

Once your return is filed, TurboTax has no control over the processing or the timing when the IRS/State releases your refund.    The IRS states that most federal tax refunds are issued within 21 days of acceptance, however, some may take longer if they require additional review. Also, by law, the IRS cannot issue EITC or ACTC refunds before mid-February. This applies to your entire refund, not just the portion related to those specific credits.   Here are a few FAQs to help you track your refund: When will I get my federal tax refund? How do I track my state refund? Why does Where's My Refund say "approved" but TurboTax still says "accepted"? Why do some refunds take longer than others? What if my IRS refund is taking longer than 21 days?

To access your tax returns (current or prior year) you will sign into the TurboTax website with the user ID you used to create the account - https://myturbotax.intuit.com/   Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and on the section Your tax returns & documents click on Show.  Click on the Year and Click on Download/print return (PDF)   As an alternative for current year return, when you sign onto your online account and land on the Tax Home web page, scroll down and click on Add a State (You will not really be adding a state).    This will take you back in to the 2025 online tax return.

Federal and state refunds come from completely separate entities,  There is no rule as to which one will come first or how much time there will be between their arrivals.  Some states process returns quickly and some are very slow.   STATE RETURN Make sure your state return was accepted:  https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/efile-status-lookup/   To track your state refund:       ttps://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-refund/track-state-refund/L3jgO8PGs_US_en_US?uid=lt447ebr https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/state-taxes/contact-state-department-revenue/L9qVToi02_US_en_US?uid=m6e06um0

Go into the "Estimates and other taxes paid" section of the Deductions and Credits page and add your payments.  That will take them off the amount due with filing.  (If you paid the exact amount and it didn't change, then you should show owing zero.)

@Scott_Sa wrote: Tho technically correct, the answer is misleading.  You CAN use QCD to reduce your taxes (if you are 70 1/2 or older): * Say you are withdrawing $50,000/year from pre-tax IRA for living expenses * Say you contribute $5000/year to a charity * You are paying, assuming 20% income tax bracket, $1000 tax on that $5000 of your withdrawals that went to a charity * IF, instead, you withdraw $45,000/year for living, and do a QCD to your charity, you have saved the $1000 in taxes that you would have otherwise paid on that extra $5000. First, that's a 7 year old discussion you are replying to.   Second, you can't do a QCD from a non-IRA account.   Something everyone has missed is that a person could do a rollover from the 403b or 457 to an IRA, and then do the QCD from the IRA.  But you can't do a QCD directly from a qualified workplace plan.  

Home Mortgage Interest reported on Form 1098 is defined as interest on a mortgage used to buy or improve your main home or a second home. Loan interest on a vacant lot held for future use and/or investment is considered Investment Interest. (See IRS Tax Topic 505 for guidance on what types of interest are deductible.)   Investment Interest is deductible but limited to your net investment income (see Publication 550, Investment Income and Expenses). This interest is an "Other Itemized Deduction" on Schedule A, which is relevant only if you itemize your deductions. Excess investment interest expense (greater than investment income) is carried forward to future years.    Mortgage balances on investment loans are not included in the home mortgage interest limitation calculation.   According to IRS Pub 936, "You can deduct home mortgage interest on the first $750,000 ($375,000 if married filing separately) of indebtedness. However, higher limitations ($1 million ($500,000 if married filing separately)) apply if you are deducting mortgage interest from indebtedness incurred before December 16, 2017."   If your home mortgage balances exceeded the limitation, TurboTax would have adjusted the home mortgage interest that was reported on your return. It's possible to replace the amount calculated by the software, however. If you calculated this interest separately and entered your own value, this may have been more than the IRS allows.   The vacant lots would remain as investments whether you intend to sell them or hold them for future use.   It might be helpful to start a new TurboTax return to test the effect of properly reporting your loan interest. This exercise would provide some guidance in how you need to amend your return. Note that you can create as many returns as you like in TurboTax Desktop. For TurboTax Online, you would need to sign up and log in with a different email address.

How do you know that the IRS changed your AGI? Did you get a notice or letter from the IRS? They must have changed something else besides your AGI. The other changes made your AGI higher. The notice or letter from the IRS tells you everything that they changed. Read the entire notice or letter carefully.