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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Hey, face it people. Last year I sent my PAPER form on April 15, 2012 and did not get a refund until July, 2012. Same story..different year. All backlogged paper returns will complete sometime in July. Same problem….manpower.
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Send an email to these addresses at the NY Times. They should cover this and hear about all the people who are waiting and the abysmal system NY State has for checking.
They said my claim was close on june 9 th wat does tht mean
I have been waiting 114 days and today the system
Say return process you will get a response from us in 10 days so I don’t know when I am getting my money lol
I just don’t know anymore with this state you cannot owe them because they will
Take everything from you , but you have wait for your hard earn money with no
Interest after waiting so long to hear bullshit
I just called and talked to someone and they told me that it would be at lest 8 weeks for anyone that paper filed. (I mailed mine out in march… they received it but have not even started processing it yet.