English to Spanish Bus/Financial Law: Taxation & Customs

Form 8379, Injured Spouse Claim and Allocation, is being filed with your return. The IRS will calculate the amount of refund due. The IRS will process your claim before an offset occurs and therefore filing Form 8379 with your reutrn may delay your refund by 6 to 8 weeks.

This is basically a form that is filed by the spouse of a taxpayer who has a debt owed such as back child support. The spouse who filed a joint tax return may have normally been able to file a tax return and receive a refund. However, since that person filed a joint return with their spouse the IRS will keep any refund owed and use it to offset the other spouse's bad debt. So, in this case this is what offset is referring to. The "injured" spouse the one who should have received the refund will have to then file this form to claim or ask for the refund after the tax return is filed. I hope this helps.

I believe the word is "compensación" and I have translated it as following:

EL IRS procesará su solicitud de asignación antes de que occura una compensación.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.