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An IRS letter giving thirty days to respond is a proposed change notice: the agency records disagree with your return, and it will move ahead on its own figures unless
A refund past twenty one days with no movement means your return left the normal lane, where most electronic refunds with direct deposit land inside three weeks. The first answer
A notice of intent to levy is the last warning before the agency may take money, and its thirty days protect you: no levy can happen yet, and a hearing
A refund status of received means the agency has your return and it is inside processing, the longest and least detailed stage of the three. The first answer is free,
A notice freezing a refund until bank details are added means the payment could not be delivered as instructed, and the agency is holding the money against corrected delivery information.
Signing an IRS response form means accepting the agency proposed figures as your tax, and signing fast is safe only when their records are demonstrably right. The first answer is
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