What Does My Tax Refund Status Mean?

Don’t stress! You won’t miss this flight.

Have you ever walked into an airport and realized you and everyone around you seem to be in a rush? Well, tax filers tend to mimic the same anxious energy, especially those trying to figure out their tax refund status.

We understand that like the airport checking luggage-security-shoes-off whirlwind, tax filing is also something you don’t do every day and can be pretty stressful. Actually, filing your taxes is the hardest part though so give yourself a pat on the back, sit back and await your refund.

What status updates should I look out for?

Whether you are a RapidTax customer or not,  you’ll probably use the IRS “Where’s My Refund?” tool. Before checking your refund status, you’ll want to recognize and know the meaning of the following status updates:

  1. Return Received or Accepted
  2. Refund Approved
  3. Refund Sent
  4. Your tax return is still being processed. A refund date will be provided when available.

What does Return ‘Received’ or ‘Accepted’ mean?

The IRS updates you with “We have accepted your tax return and it is being processed”. This is solely to update you that your return was successfully received by the IRS. This status update does not mean your return was approved. It simply means the IRS has it and it is in line to be reviewed and processed. Continue reading “What Does My Tax Refund Status Mean?”

Where to File: Customer Reviews of RapidTax

Not sure where to file your 2015 taxes? Check out what customers had to say about filing with RapidTax.

Your tax filing options are endless. 

You can drive to get your taxes prepared and dish out a couple hundred dollars. You can pay that tax preparer “friend” and cross your fingers that you’ll see your tax refund. Or you can pick an online tax company and file your taxes at home, in your pajamas. 

Most importantly, you want to be sure your federal and state taxes are filed safely. RapidTax offers safe, online tax filing so you can file your taxes quickly and easily! 

That means, instead of dishing out hundreds of bills after driving to a tax company or instead of taking risks with a questionable website or that tax filing “friend”,  you can file your taxes with RapidTax without wasting time and money. In fact, previous RapidTax customers agree.

You don’t have to take our word for it. Check out what filers had to say about their RapidTax experience!

 

RT Reviews

We are thrilled to hear the positive words and testimonials! We also love hearing any constructive comments, which we use to improve the tax filing process each year. Feel free to leave your comments below.

If before, you weren’t convinced about using the RapidTax website to file your 2015 taxes, maybe the customer testimonials helped. Take their word and let RapidTax guide you through a smooth tax filing experience this year.

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Updated for 2015 tax year.

Top 5 Tips for Reducing Your Real Estate Taxes

Life as a homeowner has it’s ups and downs.

Transforming a new house into a unique space to call your home is a perfect example of the upsides to being a homeowner. On the downside, there’s the painful chores of fixing broken appliances and of course, paying the dreaded ongoing costs and taxes associated with owning a home.

Whether you have just entered the home owning universe and bought a home over the last year, have been a homeowner, or recently sold your home, there’s no doubt you have faced  home owning costs and taxes. Although there’s no way to escape them, there are tips to help lower your taxes when filing your 2013 taxes.

Top 5 Real Estate Tax Tips, Worthy of Writing Down 

The following tips for real estate taxes will leave you with more money (and energy) to instead use towards transforming your home into your dream estate.

1. Mortgage Interest- As you (hopefully) know, a large chunk of your monthly house mortgage payment, goes towards interest. As long as the loan for your home is under $1 million, this interest is tax deductible. You can also generally deduct equity debts of $100,000, or less.

Continue reading “Top 5 Tips for Reducing Your Real Estate Taxes”