Often, very little else happens. A filing charge generally needs unpaid tax, and a refund return usually does not have any.
When a refund is due, the failure-to-file charge often does not begin, because that charge generally needs unpaid tax before it has a base to grow from. That is the shape of the rule. The IRS page linked below is where you should read it. No percent is printed here, and no minimum dollar is printed here either.
You may need nothing from this desk, and that is a genuine answer rather than a brush-off. A notice can still follow a filing that was correct. If one does, the letter can be explained. This desk does not step in as your representative to answer it.
Source. Failure to file, read 29 September 2026 at https://www.irs.gov/payments/failure-to-file-penalty.
Reading the morning after an acceptance is the work here. It stops short of an audit, a review, a compilation or an opinion on your statements. There is no CPA license at this desk, so those belong with a firm that holds one. A letter gets explained to you here, never answered on your behalf. A hearing about a balance you cannot pay is representative work, and it lives elsewhere. Everything else that bounds this desk is kept on the disclosures page.
If the refund really is the whole morning, you can close the tab with a clearer head. That was the help.
If something else arrived with the refund, say what it was. A letter changes the visit. A dollar amount is not required in the note.
Say whether a refund is really all that is still open.
You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice.