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My girlfriend just had something very similar happen this year. The IRS withheld her 2019 refund, claiming they did not have her tax return from ~2013.
Turns out she had filed jointly with her husband at the time, and the IRS had somehow not associated this return that he filed with her current IRS account. It was never made clear why this took so long to come up - they divorced in 2015 or so.
Resolving the issue was complicated by the fact that he now lives in Romania, but eventually she was able to get someone at the IRS to link their joint return to her current account.
Before you call the IRS, make sure you have the full copies of the tax returns in question... they will quiz you on much of it for "verification." She had a copy downloaded from turbotax which didn't show the direct deposit account numbers, and this was a sticking point with the first IRS lady she talked to.
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Graham
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