No one at the IRS can seem to understand or answer my question.
I owe about $400 in back taxes.
I filed my tax return for 06 and actually ended up oweing $42. I have never owed before and usually got around $600 in refunds (which they later took to pay back taxes).
However, filing this time it never said I had a refund, just that I owed $42.
I filed online and I'm wondering if their system saw I owed the back taxes and just immediately took the refund and applied it and that left me a balance of $42?
In the past they always showed me a refund amount and then later applied it to the back taxes. This time it didn't even show me a refund amount.
Any ideas?
2007-01-19 09:01:08 · 2 answers · asked by mrspunkmeister2u 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Taxes ➔ United States
No, the $42 would be what you owe for 2006, and you should send them the $42. Anything you owe for back taxes would be additional to that.
If nothing much changed about your income or deductions, and you usually get $600 back but this year had to pay, you should compare last year's return to this year's and see where the difference is, in case there's a mistake someplace. If you claimed more exemptions on your W-4, or your living situation changed or your salary or some other number on your return changed by very much, then this could be correct. Otherwise it sounds like there might be a mistake someplace.
2007-01-19 09:34:38 · answer #1 · answered by Judy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You probably didn't have refund coming. Any balance due from a previous year does not show up this years return at all.
2007-01-19 17:08:26 · answer #2 · answered by Wayne Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋