<prompt> Human: I was comparing the tax return I got last year to the estimated return Im going to get from turbo tax and it seems like something may be off.Background info:Last year my dad took my tax information to HR Block and had them do it. This year I wanted to do it for free by myself because I ended up paying a pretty large fee using HR Block last year.Last tax year 2016, I graduated college in May. Before I graduated I was working at a Walmart in my college town. So I wasnt making a large amount of money by any means. I started working for my current company in May and started to get an actual paycheck.This tax year 2017, I worked at my current company all year got a few raises, and obviously made a lot more money in 2017 than I did in 2016.In 2016 my tax return from HR Block was just under 1,700. This year, turbo tax is estimating just under 1,100. This doesnt make much sense to me.The only thing that I can really think of is that I had a student loan that after interest, had compiled up to about 20,000. I believe the original loan amount was about 16,000.I paid off almost the whole loan in 2016, and finished paying it off in 2017. I paid about 187 of interest in 2017. So I obviously paid a lot more of my interest off in 2016, which helps as a deduction.Is the difference in my return based off of the interest I payed on my loan, even though I made a decent amount more money in 2017? Or should I pay the 150ish and go back to HR Block for a bigger return?  <response>: There is no correlation between income and your tax refund not tax return. Your refund is simply the difference between your withholdings and how much you actually owe the government.The change in student loan interest may be a small factor, but its likely just that your withholdings were a bit more accurate and I wouldnt say very accurate since you still are getting a huge refund.No, paying 150 to HR isnt going to magically make your refund higher. 