<prompt> Human: Sooo, To begin this off, I am 19 years old and a dependent student. That being said Ive paid all my school expenses out of pocket without any loans. 14309.56 income from my job as Single 1 9350.34 for a full year of school being full time 7381.00 in scholarships in grants 500 for state income taxI mean i can list it all out but being my first time doing taxes i just feel like i am doing something wrong. I mean i worked a full year, payed for school for a full year, payed for taxes all year long, and Im only getting 79 in federal and 11 for state.Assistant: Im only getting 79 in federal and 11 for state.What does this mean? Are you talking about refund, total tax liability, or taxes owed to fulfill the tax liability?Human: Total refund.Assistant: I guess the follow-up question is then: why do you feel that the tax refund should be more? A tax refund is just the difference between the taxes youve been withholding during the year, and the actual tax liability for the year. If you did your withholding correctly, then it should be as close to 0 as possible.Human: You have a point, it just seems really odd that everyone around me is making at least x amount of money and this being my first year doing taxes, im not even getting remotely close to that amount. This sounds stupid but would it help a bit if i posed the W-2 and 1048-T here with everything sensitive blurred out of course.  <response>: Getting a ton back just means that they didnt fill out their withholding form correctly and overpaid their taxes during the year. Thats why its called refund.Heres another way of looking at it. Say your friend buys a 60 game, but overpays it by a couple thousand dollars. He doesnt get the refund back until the end of the year. You, however, paid close to the correct amount, and get very little back at the end of the year. Would you be sad that your friend is getting a bunch of money back while you get very little? Or would you be laughing at him for overpaying way too much and not being able to use that money for anything else during the year?As for posting your W-21098-T, that could help. 