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Internal Revenue Service [IRS] review: Tax refund was illegally offset

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IRS off set my tax refund of more than $2, 000.00 to pay my wife's debt, but at the time we were not even married and it isn't my debt! It has been over a year now sitting in another agency and I can't get it back. I have even sent in a copy of my marriage certificate/lic. and they still won't refund it. I am elderly and I desperately need these funds. Thank you. Mr. John R. Gay

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Dec 06, 2013 3:51 pm UTC

Unfortunately for you, when you married your wife you also married her debt. Was this an IRS debt? If not you may need to make a serious complaint. The only entity that can offset that is the IRS itself. Only debts owed due to a judgment can be garnished from tax refund and then only in a few states. If the debt was a government backed student or other loan or an IRS debt, you ar SOL. Sorry.