When can you claim a refund of overpaid Federal income tax. Not understanding administrative error
qualification.
There are two types of errors:
I did it wrong.
If it was done incorrectly, all of that is real money errors which really happened = can't be corrected now, simply by changing reporting. That's nonadministrative. Example: wrong calculation created wrong amount withheld or something treated as taxable or not, when its reality was the opposite. A payroll processing error.
Or;
I reported it wrong.
If it was reported incorrectly, the goal is to show the right data for what really happened. That's administrative. Example: reported wrong total taxable wages or picked up a value from a different period, wrote something on the wrong line. A form entry error.
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