Checking The Status of Your Tax Refund

Well, you survived the tax deadline this year. Many people had to pay money to the IRS, but just as many had a refund do. If you fall in this group, you might be wondering when your tax refund is going to come.

A quick word about tax refunds. While getting one may seem the greatest of things, it actually should cause you to take some time and analyze how you are paying taxes. Simply put, a tax refund means you are doing something wrong, particularly if it is large.

Imagine overpaying your car payments by $500 dollars a year and then getting a refund at the end of the year. Think that is smart? Well, it is exactly what you are doing when you overpay your taxes. If this sounds smart, I would like to borrow some money from you.

Regardless, you want to know about your tax refund this year. No problem there. The IRS has made it a relatively simple task to figure out the status of your tax refund. Yes, shocking, but true. The IRS is actually being helpful. The end of the world must be near.

The first step to finding out about your refund is to visit the site for the IRS. You can find it by doing a search for IRS in any search engine. Displayed prominently on the home page you will see a link for finding out about your refund. Click it.

At this point, you need to dig out the great American novel…err, tax return you filed. You need your SSN, specific refund amount and filing status information. You have to click the link called wheres my refund at the bottom of the page to get to the form.

As you can see, the form is incredibly simple. Just fill in the information, click and wait for an answer. You will be told the refund date, that there was a problem delivering it to you or there is a problem with the return you filed and the refund is delayed.

Obviously, this final answer may cause most people to faint at their computer. Don’t. It is not necessarily an indication of impending doom, to wit, and audit. You may just have forgotten to fill in a necessary box or the computer may have had a problem with the form.

What if you are one of those people that had their return tagged for an audit? This may not be as bad as you think. The IRS is under budgeted and understaffed. Most of the time they just send a letter with a proposed change. Agree to the change and the audit is over.

There are more than a few funny quotes about the joy of tax refunds. While funny, they are misguided. I personally prefer not to give the government a free loan in the first place. If you get big refunds each year, make sure to adjust what you are paying in.

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