I am a college student and have been paying rent for the last four years. The tax return for this year has me getting less rent back than last year even though I paid more rent this year. How is this possible? I have all the Certificates of Rent paid and I see that they are all multiplied by 19% to come up with a number. Should I not get that much rent back? Seems a bit strange. Can someone help me out?

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