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Andre Rousseau

Low refund ($600) with 3 dependents, medical expenses, and $103k income - something wrong?

Filed our taxes and only getting $600 back this year. We have 3 kids, made $103k, and had $10k in medical expenses. Last year we made $2k less and got way more back. This doesnt make sense to me. Did something change with the tax code or am I missing something?

Zoe Papadakis

Tax pro here. Several factors could be affecting your refund. Did you receive advance Child Tax Credit payments last year? Those would reduce your refund. Also, medical expenses need to exceed 7.5% of your AGI to be deductible, and you'd need to itemize deductions for them to count.

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Andre Rousseau

omg yes we did get those monthly payments! totally forgot about that 🤦‍♀️

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Zoe Papadakis

That explains it! Those payments were basically getting your refund in advance.

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Jamal Carter

hey, I was in a similar situation and was super confused. I used taxr.ai to analyze my transcript and it explained everything perfectly - showed exactly why my refund was different from last year. It costs $1 but saved me hours of research. Here's the link: https://taxr.ai

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AstroAdventurer

does it actually work? sounds too good to be true tbh

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Jamal Carter

100% works! It broke down everything line by line and showed me exactly where the differences were from last year. Even caught a mistake I made that would have cost me $800!

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Mei Liu

How fast does it analyze everything? My transcript is pretty complicated

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Jamal Carter

Takes like 2 minutes tops! Super fast and accurate 💯

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Liam O'Sullivan

in the same boat! its crazy how different things are this year smh

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Amara Chukwu

Did you change your w4 withholdings at all during the year? That could effect it to

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Andre Rousseau

nope, everything stayed the same 😕

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Giovanni Conti

Check if ur eligible for the Medical Expense Tax Credit. might help a bit

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Fatima Al-Hashimi

Medical expenses need to be HUGE to actually help on taxes nowadays 🤷‍♀️

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NeonNova

The advance CTC payments really threw everyone for a loop this year ngl

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Dylan Campbell

fr fr the government playing games with our money 🤡

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