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By Neil Downing

Your Rhode Island personal income-tax refund may now be reduced - or even eliminated - if you owe back taxes to Connecticut.

Similarly, your Connecticut personal income-tax refund may be reduced - or eliminated -if you owe back taxes to Rhode Island.

It is the result of a data-sharing agreement entered into with little fanfare by both states a few months ago.

Under the agreement, one state will offset personal income-tax refunds for delinquent taxes owed to the other state.

The arrangement was confirmed last week by David M. Sullivan, Rhode Island's state Tax Administrator, and Sarah E. Kaufman, director of communications for the Connecticut Department of Revenue Services.

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