TurboTax showing lower refund than last year ($2K vs $6K) - single parent with dependent

Tax professional here. This difference is likely due to several changes. The Child Tax Credit returned to its pre-pandemic amount of $2,000 per child (down from $3,600 for children under 6). Also, many pandemic-era tax benefits expired. Without seeing your full tax situation, its hard to give specific advice, but this decrease isn't unusual.

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in the same boat bestie 🚣‍♀️ my refund dropped like 3k from last year smh

Did you change your withholdings at all during the year? That could affect it too

ur probably still eligible for earned income credit with that income and a dependent. double check that turbotax entered everything correctly

The IRS and these refunds are such a joke fr fr 🤡