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Tax Refunds: Why a Big One Isn't a Win

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$150 disappears from every one of Alex's paychecks all year to produce his $1,800 refund, and the same math resurfaces in the chart's separate example, where a $200-a-month gap between Worker A and Worker B adds up to exactly Worker A's own $2,400 refund.

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