hmm.

[fox]

So a few weeks ago I got my state tax refund in the mail. Then some time last week I got a notice that I had done some sort of wrong calculation and I was actually only entitled to about a third of the refund I got, and they'd like the rest of it back, please, unless I cared to argue with them about their calculations and I could send in the documentation blah blah blah. I put it aside to deal with once I'd got back to my office where my copies of my forms are.

And today was that day, but it was also the day my federal tax refund turned up, along with a notice that I had done some sort of wrong calculation and I was actually entitled to about half again as much of a refund as I'd asked for, and here it is, unless I happen to disagree with their calculations and would prefer not to accept the whole amount of blah blah blah.

[headscratch]

I think, since the difference between the federal refund I was expecting and the federal refund I got is bigger than the difference between the Maryland refund I got and the Maryland refund I apparently should have got - i.e., I can give Maryland some of their money back and still be ahead - I'll just send off the damned check tomorrow and call it a day, not having argued with anyone. Right?

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[fox]

Fair point - but I do not itemize. I'm going to take a look tomorrow and see where the difficulty can have come from; it's something to do with (on the state side) my tuition or my loans, which it's quite possible I may have goofed on or I may be getting dinged for something I did exactly as I was told to. But I expect what I'll end up doing is quitting while I'm ahead.

[meara]

Definitely double check--the Feds did something similar to me once, as did Indiana. Both were wrong (once their bad, once mine--I filled out the wring code for what county I lived in, but used the "correct" county's tax chart, and Feds didn't lOok at my supporting documents and demanded more money I didn't owe)