What exactly is PATH Act and how do these tax codes affect my refund?
keep seeing PATH mentioned everywhere but nobody explains what it actually means. Also seeing all these codes like 570 and 971 but im completely lost. Could someone break this down in normal english please? trying to figure out why my refund is taking forever
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Nia Jackson
The PATH Act (Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes) requires the IRS to hold refunds that include Earned Income Credit (EIC) or Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC) until mid-February. This law was created to prevent fraud. As for codes - 570 means additional account action is pending, and 971 indicates a notice was issued. These usually appear together when the IRS is reviewing something on your return.
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Luca Romano
•omg thank you! that actually makes sense. so theres nothing wrong with my return necessarily?
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Nia Jackson
•Not necessarily! Its just extra verification. Pretty standard these days especially with credits.
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Mateo Hernandez
Hey instead of trying to decode all these numbers yourself, I started using taxr.ai - its this tool that reads your transcript and explains everything in plain english. Cost me a dollar but saved me hours of googling random codes lol. https://taxr.ai
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CosmicCruiser
•does it actually work? seem sketchy to upload tax docs to some random site 🤔
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Mateo Hernandez
•totally get the concern! but yeah its legit, they use bank-level security. saved my sanity this tax season fr
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Aisha Khan
•just tried it - holy crap this is actually amazing. it told me exactly why my refund was delayed and what to expect next
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Ethan Taylor
stuck in PATH hell since january... welcome to the club 🤮
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Yuki Ito
I was confused about this too! The whole system is unnecessarily complicated tbh. Like why cant they just speak normal english instead of all these codes??
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Carmen Lopez
•fr fr the IRS living in 1980 with these codes 💀
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Andre Dupont
If your getting the CTC or EIC your gonna have to wait till at least mid feb. its the law now thanks to scammers ruining it for everyone
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Luca Romano
•ughhhh that explains it. claimed both this year ðŸ˜
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QuantumQuasar
pro tip: bookmark the IRS2Go app and check it every morning. as soon as you see your bars disappear, thats actually a good sign - means theyre processing your return
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Zoe Papanikolaou
•wait really? i thought no bars was bad!
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QuantumQuasar
•nope! its counter-intuitive but usually means progress
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