Like millions of Americans, you may have waited until the tax deadline to file your federal income taxes online, hoping for a big refund. Now that you have filed, the IRS had made it easy to go online to check the status of your income tax refund.
According to the government, if you file your income taxes electronically, your tax refund status should be available just 24 hours after you e-filed. If you mailed in your tax returns, you may have to wait up to 4 weeks to check the status of your refund online.
When using the IRS.gov tax refund status web site, you will need to have some of your personal information available. These items include you Social Security number, your filing status (single, married-filing jointly, etc.), and the exact amount of your refund, as shown on your return.
The personal information is used to match against the information on file with the IRS to help ensure that someone else does not access information about your tax return or tax refund. Use caution when giving out such personal information online and make sure that you are at the official IRS web site. https://sa1.www4.irs.gov/irfof/lang/en/irfofgetstatus.jsp