Did the IRS withhold your stimulus payment?

I cannot imagine how anyone could owe money and not know about it. No, this has never happened to me. Yes, tax preparers make mistakes, but the address on the tax form is still that of the payor (or in this case, apparently the non-payor!) and individuals are still responsible for knowing their burden whether or not they use a preparer. Well the computations are just getting more and more complicated every year, so I supposed it is possible to be confused.

We had ours with-held to be used to pay down a student loan owed. It was just fine. That's how we wanted it to be used anyway. We get to deduct the interest from the loan and that is worth more than they were going to pay us. We didn't actually expect any money, but it was nice that they used our check to help us pay a big bill.

I didn't get one at all, nor do I expect to. I owed a mere $41, but since my income was only $500 or so for last year (I had a lot of business expenses), I was deemed to be ineligible. I also paid my preparer $450 and she didn't even have the nerve to tell me...I found out when I carefully went through my return to locate the info the IRS website needed; I found out first from the website I wasn't getting one and then I found the typewritten notice from the accountant's program saying I'm ineligible. I don't know if I am anyway, but this program stinks...and how are we going to pay for it, especially since the money is primarily going back into the gas tanks of America???

I got my check free and clear about a week ago. I have always had HR block do my taxes I knew I didn't owe any money as we always get money back from the IRS. I guess I don't understand how people don't know they owe money to the IRS seems funny to me.

You can go to the website and it tells you they can hold all or part of it for taxes not paid. Your friends should look into it, but the IRS doesn't usually make mistakes like that. I had a friend who was behind in child support and they kept his refund to pay the support.

The answer to the entitled question is yes. It is because I still owe on my school loan. As for the last question, you areultimately resnsible for your taxes you owe. And there is really no recourse against the preparer. Next year just find someone else to do your taxes, unfortunatly.

MY husband is an American and should have gotten a payment but he did not because he married me, a foreigner, and we filed our taxes jointly. It really stiks that he did not get his payment because he married someone without a social security number.

Yes, I owe the IRS and they applied it to my balance. I would've put it in the bank anyway or used it to help pay them. My ex-husband owes them over $20,000 so I guess, when I think of that, I'm lucky!

They didn't withhold my stimulus payment but we filed on-line and we just now got our check, oh well. I don't think you can do anything about the IRS withholding funds if you owe. Its the IRS, they took down Al Capone, best to just leave it alone.

Yes, ours was witheld for taxes owed. We were told that wouldn't happen and could have used the money. But at least this way there won't be any more penalties or interest accruing. :-)

I got mine, although it was only 300.00 and I thought it would be more. However my partner's was witheld - supposedly for back taxes we don't believe he owes. I'm writing a letter tomorrow to the IRS to see if we can get it clarified. They say he didn't report income from a job one year, but we did. And if we hadn't reported it how would THEY have known about it then? Yup, I want them to prove it now!