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Understanding IRS Transcript: Cycle Code 20250505 with $7,388 Refund - When Will My Head of Household Return Update?

Been checking my transcript daily and starting to lose my mind. I keep hearing about cycle codes and update days but I'm completely lost. Anyone know when different cycle codes typically update? Just want to know if I'm checking at the right times. I just received my Account Transcript from the IRS today. Looking at it now: Request Date: 02-02-2025 Response Date: 02-01-2025 My account balance shows -$8,388.00, with $0.00 accrued interest and $0.00 accrued penalty as of Feb. 18, 2025. The transcript shows: FORM NUMBER: 10 TAX PERIOD: Dec. 31, 2024 FILING STATUS: Head of Household EXEMPTIONS: 04 ADJUSTED GROSS INCOME: $61,742.00 TAXABLE INCOME: $39,842.00 TAX PER RETURN: $0.00 The transactions section is what's confusing me: TRANSACTIONS CODE EXPLANATION OF TRANSACTION | CYCLE | DATE | AMOUNT 150 Tax return filed | 20250505 | 02-17-2025 | $0.00 76221-417-75054-5 806 W-2 or 1099 withholding | | 04-15-2025 | -$6,716.00 766 Credit to your account | | 04-16-2025 | -$2,672.00 I see my cycle code is 20250505, but what does that mean for updates? I'm trying to figure out when I should be checking for changes. Will my refund be processed based on this cycle code? When do different cycle codes typically update on transcripts?

Freya Ross

Generally, if your cycle code ends in 01-05, you update on Wednesday nights into Thursday morning. If it ends in 20, you update Thursday night into Friday morning. But remember this isn't a guarantee - the IRS moves at its own pace 🐌

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Butch Sledgehammer

tysm! mine ends in 05 so ill check thursday morning 🙏

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Leslie Parker

dont get ur hopes up tho, mine is 05 and sometimes nothing changes for weeks 😭

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Juan Moreno

in the same boat rn. This whole process is giving me gray hairs fr fr

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Amy Fleming

Transcripts r basically useless unless u know how to read them. its like trying to decode ancient hieroglyphics lmaooo 🤣

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Alice Pierce

fr fr might as well be reading chinese 🤡

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Esteban Tate

The IRS system is so outdated smh. They really need to upgrade their tech from 1985

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Ivanna St. Pierre

their computers still running on windows 95 probably lol

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Elin Robinson

Check your 'Where's My Refund' status too. Sometimes that updates b4 transcripts

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Butch Sledgehammer

been checking that 2... still says processing 😫

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