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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4 mths my info doesn’t,t match their records. Numerous phone calls they have the return but haven,t paces send it yet .filed a paper return Mar.1st have confirmation # when I call they have the entire return in front of them.nothing wrong on the return ! If the person on the phone can tell me this why can’t they just process the $&@!’ Thing? This is beyond reprehensible! Hope you guys remember this in November when all these guys want to stay in office!! We need a voice, you can bet if you didn’t,t send a check if you owed they would have seized your bank account with in a month,
Mailed the tax return in April.
Called NYS treasury help line on 06/25/13 and was told the return was received but not processed. As of today – nothing…. Zero….
In order to show them how you don’t give a ****, and this is especially to those who filed “electronic” thinking the money gonna come back faster…try this … file with paper because it doesn’t matter one way or the other. See, by electronic filing, you just helped the State get the filings in the system without any man power. But, if they found one mistake, it is redirected to a human who sits there with a stack of files only to put the difficult one on the bottom of the heep over and over again. 120 days equals 11 weeks. The State has no shame in their game. August sounds like a good month for everyone since it is the end of another quarter.
I think Arnold Diaz at fox 5 should be notified to look into this for all of us waiting for money! This is a shame…shame on you..new york!!!
filed first week of March Still nothing