Payment for state

 

 

 

Your state tax due cannot be paid from your federal refund. 

 

It is not possible to pay your state tax due from your federal refund, nor is it possible to pay a federal tax due from a state refund.  The federal and state treasuries are completely separate from each other.  You may have seen a TurboTax summary of your federal and state amounts that confused you into thinking one was “paying” the other.  It is not. The ONLY thing you can pay for from a federal refund is your TurboTax fees if you chose that option.  

 

 If you have federal tax due you can pay by mailing your payment with the 1040V voucher, (which has the address printed on it, having the payment taken out of a designated bank account, or you can pay directly on the IRS website. 

 

https://www.irs.gov/payments/direct-pay 

 

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/tax-payments/help/how-can-i-pay-my-federal-taxes/00/26212

 

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/tax-payments/help/how-do-i-pay-my-irs-tax-due-with-a-check-or-money-order/00/26403 

 

You must pay your state tax due using the state’s preferred method of receiving payment.  For most states that will be by making a payment to the state’s own tax website, or by mailing a check or money order.

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1900884-what-are-my-options-for-getting-my-state-refund-or-for-paying-any-state-taxes-i-owe

 

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Taxes owed can

Never

be paid from a tax refund, federal or state.

If you have state taxes owed, in the File section of the program on Step 2 you are given options on how to pay the taxes owed,  being paid from the federal tax refund is Not one of those options.

I'm sorry. Let me clarify. I don't owe state. I want to file my state taxes and the fee come out of my refund. I don't think it is possible so my only option is to wait for my federal to come in then file state. 

E-file both of them but say that you will pay the federal tax by a mailed check.  That way you can get the state refund and use it to pay the federal tax owed when you the state check.

You have both federal and state refunds?  And you want the fees to come out of your federal refund?  You should be able to do that.  Unless your federal refund is not big enough to cover the fees and the extra $40 Pay with Refund service charge.  There is also a fee for the federal return.