Duplicate 2024 payment for taxes owed

LVTrader · ‎October 03, 2025

TT electronic filing instructions which states that "Your taxes are not complete until all required steps are completed."

Under What You Need to Mail, it states Your return shows a balance of $XXXX. Mail your completed Form 1040-V with included payment of $XXXX made payable to United States Treasury by April 15, 2025. Although the date is incorrect because TT does not update these dates when an extension is filed THROUGH TT, I made payment through EFTPS.

This is different from 2023 filing instructions which did not have a 'what you need to mail' section, and payment was electronically withdrawn by IRS.

Since penalty was based on date of filing, I wanted to be sure to make payment same date, 10/2.

As you can deduce, IRS also withdrew same amount from account. Now I am in overdraft - fees, etc.

Anyone have any idea how to retrieve duplicate payment other than to call [phone number removed] which is useless. Shortcuts don't work anymore because IRS changes their VM trees daily.

rjs

An extension is an extension of time to file your tax return, not an extension of time to pay the tax that you owe. The payment due date of April 15 is correct. The penalty for late payment is based on the date of payment, not the date of filing.

After the IRS processes your tax return they will probably notice the double payment and send you a refund without your having to do anything. So just wait a couple of months and see if you get the refund.

LVTrader

I filed an extension through TurboTax and sent tax payment amount that I expected would be owed. That number was low and I owed more which TT figured the penalty owed by using the date that I entered I would pay. Coincidentally the same day I filed final tax form.

The electronic filing instructions stated pay by 4/15. This is after I filed an extension and noted paid amount then in TT, so obviously TT should have directed to pay amount noted by day that I entered I would pay (10/2), so that the penalty amount would be correct.

The bigger issue with TT though is that I was directed to send payment, even though the tax I filed through TT directed IRS to withdraw from my bank account directly.