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A refund status of approved means the agency has authorised your amount and is preparing the payment, the second of the three tracker stages, and from approved the money is
A notice proposing a change that would erase most of your refund means the agency records support less refund than your return claimed, and your answer, with records attached, decides
A refund with child credits filed in January is held by law, not by suspicion: the PATH Act forbids releasing refunds claiming those credits before mid February, however clean and
An audit letter for a self employed year means the agency is examining specific items on that return, usually by mail. The first answer is free, a single answer is
A refund smaller than the amount filed for means the agency adjusted something on the way through: a credit recalculated, an amount applied to another debt, an error corrected. The
Transcript codes changing on your IRS account means the account ledger is being worked: each three digit code is an action posted to your year, and the pair that matters
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