"Here is what really happens when you press that green button and transmit your tax return.
Once you are accepted, you are on the IRS payment timetable. Only the IRS knows the status of processing your tax return, whether you owe taxes or are due a refund. In prior years, the IRS issued more than 9 out of 10 refunds to taxpayers in less than 21 days last year. The same results are expected for 2016.
Once you have e-filed your tax return, there are a few ways to check the status of your refund:
"Here is what really happens when you press that green button and transmit your tax return.
Once you are accepted, you are on the IRS payment timetable. Only the IRS knows the status of processing your tax return, whether you owe taxes or are due a refund. In prior years, the IRS issued more than 9 out of 10 refunds to taxpayers in less than 21 days last year. The same results are expected for 2016.
Once you have e-filed your tax return, there are a few ways to check the status of your refund:
Around the second week of March most departments at the IRS either closed completely or began operating with very limited staffing. As a result, the processing of tax returns has been significantly impacted and taxpayers who filed within the weeks leading up to that time period and since then are experiencing lengthy delays in many cases.
Tax returns filed by mail have not yet been scanned into tracking systems as they were simply placed in secure storage awaiting the return of operations.
Around the second week of June some IRS workers began to return to work and some limited processing of returns and other services have resumed. It is not yet known how long it may take for taxpayers to see updates to the status of their returns.
You can continue to check on the status of your refunds here:Where's My Refund?