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A refund is the IRS’s return of money that a taxpayer has overpaid to the government throughout the year, based on a tax bill that’s also been lowered by deductions and credits.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 4, 2025

But he added, "HP has overpaid for every acquisition it has made" in the past year.

From Reuters • Aug. 21, 2011

Frederic V. Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, said Congress can remedy the Postal Service's financial situation by transferring money it has overpaid to the Civil Service Retirement Fund since 1971.

From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2010

He adds that the firm specifically disagrees that the ABB plan has overpaid, or that Fidelity has violated any fiduciary duty.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2010

One offers to pay another three or four cents, which the latter has overpaid.

From Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. by Hawthorne, Nathaniel