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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I sure this crazy I been waiting for my state for almost 2 months still saying final stage well hell hiw long do it take
The State taxes take your money all year long without making any mistakes, yet when it comes to returning the over paymwnt they can’t do it on a timely manner. Taxes go up, food prices go up, train bus fares are up, the roads are atroches i can’t wait to get out of NYS..The city government can’t budget so they keep our taxes to make extra money on the interest. So who is going to give us interest on the money you held from us..
sent mine in on 2/7,up until last week I was getting they did not receive it,,,now I get the info I supply(ss #,refund total) do not match their records… cant get a human on the phone….get the same 300-350 refund every year…. whats up with this
I filed mid January and still haven’t got anything, I can’t get ahold of any people with the numbers provided on your crap site. All I want to know is where is my money? I’m not in dire need of it, I just want to know. You civilians need to answer your phones or provide phone numbers that actually let me speak to anything but a damn computer.
Need to know when my state taxes will no longer be under review and date expected