02.11.26 Tax Refunds & Withholding / Clarksplainer: Trump Accounts
The Clark Howard Podcast
Clark Howard
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🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:39.9 | It's great to have you here on the Clark Howard Show. |
| 0:42.7 | Our mission is to serve you with advice and information that empowers you, |
| 0:47.7 | so you make better financial decisions in your life. |
| 0:50.9 | And here in tax season, this year there's, well, unexpected, good things happening |
| 0:59.7 | for a reasonable percent of taxpayers. You're going to get a higher refund than you expected |
| 1:07.9 | or you may have seen in the past. So there's some things you need to know, you need to do in conjunction with that. |
| 1:15.8 | I'm going to explain the background. |
| 1:18.4 | And after I get to some of your questions, I'm going to talk about something else I talked |
| 1:24.6 | about when at first past Congress, the things called |
| 1:28.1 | Trump accounts, how they work, who they work for, and who should not do a Trump account. |
| 1:35.8 | I'm going to give you the full scoop on that later in this podcast. |
| 1:41.8 | So when Congress passed a new tax law, it was retroactive back to January 1 of last |
| 1:51.2 | year. A lot of us had our withholding set up where we work as they were, and they stayed |
| 1:58.4 | that way through the year. So what's happened is you're withholding historically may have generated some amount of |
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