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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John- I couldn’t agree more with you . Today is a week past 90 days for me and I have an inquiry they put on it and still no updates. If it it the 4 month im contacting the nys tax advocate because there should be no reason i should be waiting so long for a refund that hasnt changed in the last 5 years .
Sean…is this on nys website
NY should be ashamed of themselves. This is 2013 – nothing should take 3 months to process Did the # of tax payers quadruple last year ?? I think not.
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Thanks Nicole.
A correction in my earlier post – I did filed my tax on 03/15 (and not 05/15). It has been 2 months yet and I guess I need to wait for at least one month yet, to see any information into the system.