Yes
Understand your agreement & avoid defaultNo. A condition of your installment agreement is that the IRS will automatically apply any refund due to you against taxes you owe.
Yes
Understand your agreement & avoid defaultNo. A condition of your installment agreement is that the IRS will automatically apply any refund due to you against taxes you owe.
I am suppose to get a child credit and it is not showing up in amount at final owed..is this because the amount was automatically taken from irs??
When this says automatically... does that mean when we finish at the end of filing through Turbo Tax and it says what my refund will be, that means that all of my previously unpaid taxes were paid and are now has a zero balance and the refund it says is truely what is coming back to me? or is it calculated when Federal and State look at it and approve it?
TurboTax has no idea what you owe to the Fed and State. The amount you see when you file is the current year refund which then will be reduced or eliminated completely if you owe the government. For example, if you owe the IRS $1,000 from prior year(s) and TurboTax is showing that you will receive a $800 refund in the current year....the IRS will take the entire $800 and you will not receive any refund - plus you will still owe $200.
Does this mean that the person will be paying twice? because they withheld their refund for the owed amount and they have to also keep paying the monthly installments.
Once the full amount of your debt has been paid, whether through your payment agreement or from your tax refund, you have no further obligation. The statement that you receive from the IRS should indicate whether or not you have any further monthly obligation. The agreement states: "We will apply your federal tax refunds or overpayments (if any) to the entire amount you owe, including the shared responsibility payment under the Affordable Care Act, until it is fully paid or the statutory period for collection has expired."
Just a quick thought, does the IRS take state refunds as well while you are under an installment plan?
Yes, it's possible. The IRS has a frequently asked question (FAQ) about this topic.