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Taxes owed for the current tax year can Never be paid from a tax refund for the current tax year.
What you are seeing on the TurboTax Tax Home web page is math calculation to show your total refund. It in no way means that your federal taxes owed will be paid from your state tax refund.
You will receive the full amount of your state tax refund, baring any changes made to the state tax return by your state.
You need to pay the full amount of the federal taxes owed on or before April 15, 2025 to avoid a failure to pay penalty.
Federal tax due can never be deducted from your state tax refund, and has to be paid separately.
You may see a "combined" refund, which may make you think that federal tax has been paid from your state tax refund.
The “summary” given to you by TurboTax must have confused you. That summary just nets out the difference between a refund you are getting and an amount you owe. Or it adds two refunds or tax “due” amounts together.
The federal and state treasuries are completely separate from each other.
Your state tax due cannot be paid from a federal refund.
And….your federal tax due cannot be paid from a state refund.
Neither refund can be used to pay the amount due to the other one.
If you owe tax due, you have to pay it yourself by the filing deadline on April 15, 2025.
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.
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