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Level 3
posted Mar 3, 2023 6:12:01 PM

*IMPORTENT* Question Regarding My (2017) Refund....?

I post-dated & filed my 2017 tax return like a week or so before the deadline, waited for about 2 years now, and I just got a letter on January, 2nd, 2023 saying this

 

TAX PERIODS: DEC. 31, 2017.

Dear Taxpayer,

Your account shows an overpayment of $4,514.00

You will receive a refund in four to eight weeks unless you owe other taxes or legal debts we are required to collect. 

 

To my best knowledge it has been more then 8 weeks since Jan, 3rd, and I still have not gotten any more information concerning this, when I checked My Account Transcript, I get this (BELOW)

 

So what should I do about this issue, wait until I file my 2022 taxes and hope for the best? Call them? Write a letter?

 

Thanks!!!!!

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Level 10
Mar 3, 2023 6:17:55 PM

MichaelGD3,

 

Your 2017 refund has nothing to do with filing your 2022 taxes.  You are certainly within your rights to call the IRS and ask.  Did you perhaps move to a new address between the time you filed that 2017 return and now?  There is a possibility the check might have been mailed to an old address if so.

Level 3
Mar 3, 2023 6:30:28 PM

Level 3
Mar 3, 2023 6:44:35 PM

Level 3
Mar 3, 2023 7:14:22 PM

I lived at my current address for about 10 years, so I don't think that can be the issue. I will try my best to contact them.

 

But for the time being, any idea of why I haven't gotten it yet?

Level 10
Mar 3, 2023 10:04:41 PM

Hard to tell, but the IRS has been shorthanded for quite some time and that has delayed a lot of things related to paper returns.  As I remember, it took about half a year for me to recoup a small refund from my 2021 paper return.