system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Tax returns are the return of excess wages that the government in a sense loaned from us. Why aren't we entitled to interest on the excess tax?
gpt
Because you decided to withhold more money than you owed in taxes which is not the government's fault.

And the government makes the laws and they chose not to give you interest - and even if you did it'd probably be at most single-digit dollars.