IRS Tax Refund Status & Date
Your personal IRS and/or state tax refund date can only be reported once the IRS/state has accepted and processed your income tax return(s). The IRS acceptance date is not necessarily the same as the date you e-filed or submitted your return. Most returns will show on the IRS refund tool after being accepted within 24 hours or four weeks after a taxpayer mailed their return.
Important: Information on potential IRS Tax Return processing delays .
Note: the IRS recently updated their tool to show the current year's refund status as well as the previous two years. This means that you should be able to check on your refunds from your 2020 Return, 2021 Return, and your 2022 Return. You can use the tool below to look this up.
2022 Tax Refund Status In 2023
Most federal tax refunds are issued within 21 days, but some take longer. The fastest way to get your refund is to e-file your return and use direct deposit. Taxpayers generally cannot "speed up" the process in any way. This means that, if your refund is delayed, you should not file an amendment , contact the IRS , contact a tax preparer, or order a transcript. The information that is available on the IRS refund tool is the same information that IRS telephone representative or tax preparation support agents will have access to.
Here are common reasons for why your refund may be delayed:
The return is being used to claim the Earned Income Tax Credit or Child Tax Credit - both of these require additional processing times for identity verification purposes.
The bank processing timeframe may be slower than others, perhaps due to your bank not processing on a weekend day.
The return requires additional review, due to incompletion, errors, or identity verification.
If additional details are needed or the IRS makes an adjustment to your return, this is generally shown on the IRS refund status tool and they will issue you a notice through the mail explaining the changes and any action needed.
Many taxpayers experienced slower than anticipated IRS tax refund processing speed or time in 2020, 2021, and 2022 for their latest refunds. If your status shows that your information entered was incorrect when you are certain you have entered the right data, this may be due to these delays, meaning they do not have record of the data or refund amount you entered in their system yet and thus cannot display the information. Because of this, you may not have a tax refund status. In some cases, you may have a status one day, then the status bar may disappear and/or you may not have any information. This does not necessarily mean the IRS does not have your return if you verified your return was accepted . Click here for the sample tax refund status messages you might see.
Your tax refund may still be processing due to these IRS delays. Taxpayers do not need to file an additional return nor tax amendment as this will not affect the rate at which the IRS processes returns and refunds. If your return is still processing, you can continue to check your status online once per day to see if it is updated by the IRS. It is possible that your return is affected by the amount claimed for the Recovery Rebate Credit as the IRS had confirmed that inaccurate entries of stimulus checks reported resulted in additional review time of the return in question. This may result in your credit being increased or reduced.
If your return was e-Filed and accepted, return here to check on the status of your IRS refund. Before the IRS can release your tax refund, your e-Filed must first be accepted by the IRS. Check your tax return acceptance status by signing in to your Taxpert.com account . Your tax return acceptance notice will be on the first page on the right. Taxpert.com sends out emails as soon as your return is accepted by the IRS and state.
State tax refunds are processing at the expected rate: check your state tax refund here .
Post e-Filing and Tax Refund Questions
Your Taxpert.com Return Status?
For Taxpert.com users only: If the IRS has not yet accepted your return and you prepared and e-filed your latest return via Taxpert.com, find out what your return status is with the IRS.
Sign into your Taxpert.com account and you will see the status of your tax return on the first page (pending, accepted, or rejected). If rejected, you will find instructions on how to make the correction and re-efile your return for free.
For Taxpert.com Users Only: If you selected the e-Collect or Deduct Fee from Refund tax return preparation payment option on Taxpert.com,
check the status of your e-Collect direct deposit tax refund here . Once the IRS has sent your refund to our partner bank - EPS Financial - your tax refund will be transferred to the bank account you entered on your tax return.
Direct Bank Refund Deposit
If you selected during the
e-file checkout process to receive your expected tax refund in your bank account via direct bank deposit, your refund will be electronically transferred from the IRS (U.S. Treasury) to the bank account you enter during your checkout and e-file online process on Taxpert.com. This is the fastest way to get your refund.
Deposit to Third Party App
If you elected to receive your refund via direct deposit to a third-party money sending app, like Venmo or PayPal, the IRS will send your refund to the account you provided during the Taxpert.com checkout process. This, like direct deposit, is the fastest way to receive your refund and may even be faster.
The Refund Date Estimator Tool allows you to estimate your tax refund date based on your personal refund transfer method. You can use this tool prior to e-Filing or after you e-filed or submitted your tax return. Keep in mind, once the IRS has accepted your return, the above "Where's My Tax Refund?" IRS tool is the more accurate way to check your status.
Refund Delay due to Security Checks
Estimated tax refund dates are based on the IRS acceptance date and are not guaranteed by Taxpert.com, the IRS, or any other online platform. Depending on IRS security procedures, the tax refund date could take up to 21 days after the IRS tax return acceptance date or as early as 7 days via the bank direct deposit method. Security Delays : Since the IRS has added security measures for e-filing 2021 Tax Returns to decrease tax fraud, your tax refund may be delayed in 2021. The IRS requires online tax websites to add identity verification steps to ensure that the taxpayer filing their return is exactly who they say they are (i.e. security questions/answers, stronger passwords, etc.). As a result of these new security measures, the IRS may issue more refunds as paper checks, even if taxpayers requested direct deposit.
Why Is My Refund Lower?
Your refund may have been offset or adjusted by the IRS - not Taxpert.com nor whichever tax preparation platform was used. You may have received IRS Notice CP121 or CP12 detailing the change in your refund. One of the most common reasons for adjusted refunds was a mis-entry of the Recovery Rebate Credit on Line 30 of the Form 1040 for 2021 Returns. For example, if you stated that you were owed Stimulus 3 for $1,400 on your Taxpert account, the software would have added a $1,400 credit to your return. But, if you had already received this amount as an advance payment via Stimulus 3, then the IRS would adjust this on your return and remove the $1,400 credit, thus reducing your refund by $1,400. For 2022 Returns, this credit is no longer relevant; see the other reasons for offsets below.
Tax Refund Offset Program
Your refund may have been adjusted, or offset, by the Treasury Offset Program (TOP). The program is run by the Financial Management Services (FMS). Under TOP, various federal and state government agencies are authorized to seize outstanding federal or state debts from federal tax refunds. The FMS may offset part or all of your federal tax refund to pay: Unpaid child support, federal non-tax debts (including student loan repayments), state income tax debts, state unemployment compensation debts, etc. An offset for non-tax debts occurs after the IRS verified your refund to FMS for payment, but before FMS direct deposits the refund or mails a paper check to you. Though an offset reduces the amount of your expected refund via direct deposit or check, it does not delay the time you will receive the remaining refund (if any) after the offset. You will receive a notice from FMS via mail. The notice will list the original refund and offset amounts. It will also include the agency that received the offset payment and their contact information: You can call the Treasury Offset Program Call Center at (800) 304-3107.
Injured Spouse Debt, Offset
If you e-filed or filed a joint tax return, you may be entitled to part or all of the refund offset. This rule applies if your spouse is mainly responsible for the debt. Be sure to eFile Form 8379,
Injured Spouse Allocation , with your return to request your part of the refund. See also:
Innocent Spouse Relief .
Tax Debt
If you have non-tax debts, you can contact the agency you owe. That way, you can determine if the agency submitted your debts to TOP for refund offset. You will need to contact the agency that received the offset part of your refund, not the IRS or FMS. The notice will include instructions on how to contact the appropriate agency or agencies.
Refund Delay Due to
Tax Amendment If you mailed a tax amendment, you should wait 10-12 weeks before checking your
amended IRS tax return status . The IRS online "Where's My Refund?" service does not keep track of amendment refunds, but you can click on the
Check Tax Amendment Status button from the above linked amendment page. This online tool provides the status of amended tax returns for the current year and up to three prior years. You can also call the IRS amended return hotline at
1-866-464-2050 .
Amended returns are currently taking up to 16 weeks (or 4 months) for the IRS to process, so you should wait at least 10-12 weeks before checking on the status of your tax refund. If it has been over 16 weeks since you filed your amendment and you have not received your refund, you should call the IRS at 1-800-829-1040 and speak to a customer service representative. Here's a tip for when you call: Press 1 (for English), press 0 (zero), press 0 (zero), and you should be able to talk to a live person at the IRS. The best time to reach the IRS is between 7-9 AM and 6-7 PM, Monday-Friday.
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Refund Delays
If your tax refund payment is delayed or you never received your tax refund or stimulus payment, complete
Form 3911 and submit it to the IRS.
Mail it to the IRS address based on your resident state. Otherwise,
contact the IRS . This is your money; be sure to claim it as, after three years, you can no longer claim a missing tax refund.
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