Find out when you should receive your 2012 New York state tax refund
Are you still waiting on a tax refund from New York state? You can check the status of your state refund online by using the Income Tax Refund Status tool on the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance website. If you prefer to use the phone you can also check the status of your refund by calling 518-457-5149.
These days you can expect your federal refund from the IRS in under twenty-one days. In some cases they are even fast enough to get your money out in a week. State operations are not quite so sophisticated.
New York says to expect your refund six to eight weeks after they receive your return. As with federal taxes, the fastest way to get your refund is by e-filing your return and then requesting your refund by direct deposit. Mailing your return in to the tax office and requesting a paper check will both slow down the refund process.
If you really want to know when you’ll get your refund the moment that information become available, you can sign up to receive an email from New York State as soon as they process your return. The message will include the amount of your refund, the expected payment date, and the payment method. In order to receive this email, you have to sign up through the online services.
The best advice I can give when it comes to tax refunds is just to be patient – this advice holds true for your federal taxes but it’s even more true at the state level. Government isn’t known as a model of efficiency. Checking your refund status twelve times a day isn’t going to get your money any faster, but it might make the state’s refund status tool crash.
Just as a reminder for all of you who haven’t filed yet, the deadline for filing your 2012 New York state tax return in April 15, 2013, the same as it is for your federal return. File your taxes with RapidTax now and you can take care of your state and federal return at the same time.
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For those of you that filed a joint return, if you have not already done so make sure you check under BOTH social security numbers when checking the Where Is My Refund website. One would assume that the State would register both numbers in the system since it is a joint return however, that is not the case. My number shows that they have no record of my return and we filed January 27th but they do show the return as processed and received under my husband’s number. And as a side note, we both had income to claim so it makes no sense. Will I now show no record of paying taxing!? Insane. Further, it has show the “two week but up to four week” statement for almost 6 weeks. It’s really a shame. The only advice, don’t spend your refund until you actually get it.
Tell you what Marquita couldnt agree more and to those who would tell you well just leave NY then some of us are stuck here….
I for one am desperately trying to escape!!!
Marquita for some stupid reason if you “lie” imagine that lie and just get a live person on the phone they can confirm if they received your paperwork at least which might give you some peace of mind….I for one was counting on the usual time frame and I have now started spiraling into debt and starvation rations. Pretty terrible. I completely agree with you that it’s truly wrong as If I owed the state all sorts of nasty things would be done to me as a citizen…
I mean seriously what recourse do we have none it appears….i’d complain to my congressman but I realize they are crooks and scoundrels….what a terrible terrible system….all this because of the computers really since they made so many changes the computers supposedly could not be updated in time causing many forms to not be available for efile…they had all year sorta makes you wonder if it was done deliberately
I hate this state. All 25 years of my life I am pretty positive ive hated this state…Here I am worried that they’ve never received my paperwork in the mail because they haven’t had any info to tell me besides NO info on the refund status website. Even the computerized woman over the phone says the same thing the message says. Whats the point of her?? NYS should be ashamed for holding on to the hardworking men and womens’ money. But god forbid we ever owe them a dime all hell would break loose. I do not ride for my state one bit because they do not ride for me!
thanks for posting Desi i am mega frustrated just rang them n got nowhere i was told to allow another 4 weeks as it still does not show processing status omg
I mailed my form Mar-15. Ever since the system says there is no information.
5 weeks is too much time to enter the information into the system.
When I called, I was told there is a hug backlog on all paper filed taxes. And there is no ETA.