{"id":718697,"date":"2010-04-17T12:03:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T16:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004612"},"modified":"2010-04-15T16:06:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T20:06:21","slug":"how-to-check-your-tax-refund-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/718697","title":{"rendered":"How to Check Your Tax Refund Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/2361234808_422d0323c2_m-thumb-165x110-39357.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Despite how antiquated some of our tax laws seem to be, the IRS itself has truly embraced the internet and provided a great tool for you to check the status of your refund. You can use this tool to track your return 72 hours after you&#8217;ve e-filed (which is a <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/three-reasons-you-should-efile.html\">good reason to e-file<\/a>!) or three to four weeks if you filed a paper return. Unfortunately, if you amended your return, you will not be able to use this system.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very easy to check the status of your tax refund online, collect these three pieces of information:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>Your social security number (if filed jointly, either social security number will work)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Your filing status<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Your refund amount, to the whole dollar amount<\/li>\n<p>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n<p>Then, visit this <a href=\"https:\/\/sa2.www4.irs.gov\/irfof\/lang\/en\/irfofgetstatus.jsp\">Refund Status page<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/sa2.www4.irs.gov\/irfof\/lang\/sp\/irfofgetstatus.jsp\">Spanish version<\/a>), enter your information, and you will be provided the status of your refund.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you don&#8217;t care when your refund will arrive, check anyway because this is one of the few times you will be able to get an answer from a government agency in under 5 hours of waiting.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jim writes about personal finance at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bargaineering.com\/articles\/\">Bargaineering.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite how antiquated some of our tax laws seem to be, the IRS itself has truly embraced the internet and provided a great tool for you to check the status of your refund. You can use this tool to track your return 72 hours after you&#8217;ve e-filed (which is a good reason to e-file!) or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-30XT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}