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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.
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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/1901670-how-do-i-contact-my-state-department-of-revenue
It gave me the option to use my federal refund towards what I owed.
@angi503840 No. You misunderstood that. The only thing you can pay from your federal refund is TurboTax fees. You CANNOT pay the state from your federal refund. Make other plans for paying the state. Either mail the state a check or money order or pay them on the state tax website.
You misunderstood what TurboTax said you could do. What you did was pay your TurboTax fees from your federal refund. That is the only thing you can pay from your federal refund.
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