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Posted by Mike Wellman on November 30, 2006, 1:41 am
Please log in for more thread options lowenthal.richard@gmail.com wrote:
> I received a refund for my 2002 taxes, which were filed in
> May 2006. The accountant said that the IRS probably would
> not issue this refund, since it was more than three years
> past the filing deadline of April 15th 2006, but they did
> issue it.
>
> TurboTax states: "If you are due a refund (meaning you have
> overpaid your tax), you can wait up to three years from the
> original April 15 deadline to file your return and claim
> your refund." However other statements on this subject that
> I found seem to indicate that if you file an extension then
> the three years starts when the extension ends.
>
> When does the three year limit actually start? Does it start
> on April 15th, or if you filed an extension does it start at
> the end of the extension? The fact that I got a refund seems
> to indicate that the three years starts at the end of the
> extension, or was I just lucky? The refund was for around
> $5000.
The three year period includes extensions.
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