Jerry32 wrote:

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A Good question you have.

I would put both years, as in: "2002/03" and attach a
note explaining.

Cheer$,
Harlan Lunsford, EA in LA

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this past year for the first time my wife & I had our 2002
refund withheld.($700.00) We live in Ga. & apparently this
is the first year that the state has done this
(retroactively) & i'm still in the process of trying to get
the info. for something that was at least 10 years before I
married, but I will get to the bottom of that.(I also have
adjusted withholding already) We (my wife-I'm a stay at home
dad with not much income) filed the form #8379 & received
the full amount of the refund + a few dollars interest,
about 2 months after we sent. So now we were expecting to
get the $800.00 advance tax credit for our 2 kids & received
the same notice instructing us to file the 8379 form, blah,
blah, blah. So I called the IRS & told the lady that we had
already done this & asked why would this happen again as
we've already resolved this, & she said that the advanced
tax credit is NEXT YEAR's credit...

So now I'm wondering how to handle, should we send the form
like we did before & on Part 1, line 2 where it says Enter
the tax year for which you are filing this claim..should we
put 2002 or 2003? And if 2003 would they then wait for next
years return to be filed before they refund the money or ??
Just want to make sure we handle correctly. I'm guessing we
should just handle like before, put 2002?

.....Thanks (in advance!) for your help!

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