If you managed your money right you shouldn't be getting one and you shouldn't have to pay either. Having Uncle SAM control your overpaid taxes for a year is giving him a no interest loan. You need it more than him and the amount you over pay him and get back after he kept it in the federal reserve, where he made interest on your cash but you don't is just plain dumb. You could take that 500, 1000 or however much and could have put it into an IRA, 403B even a savings account and made more with it. I usually break even, he gets very very little or none and I the same. It's better in your pocket than his and you don't have to wait for tax time to get it and use it.
