Tax Refunds

As I was making my check out for the accountant for taxes this year, I realized it has been several weeks since I had filed my tax return and yet…still no refund in the mail. It occurred to me maybe the IRS was busy with tax returns, and were running as slow as I was getting my bills out this month or maybe that the postal service was just as overwhelmed with tax returns that they too were a little behind. 

But I am a patient tax payer ,and was giving the IRS the benefit of the doubt during tax return season, I thought I would wait a few weeks before I sent out the dogs to find it. Now that that moment is here I wondered where you go to find out where your tax return is?

After several thousand hits on Google for 'Missing Tax return' I finally sifted my way through the IRS website to find this phone number (800) 829-1954 and Refund Status Website . It was very helpful and answered all my questions in less than 30 seconds!

There are three key pieces of information you need:

1. Your social security number 
2. Filing status i.e., head of household or single
3. The exact refund amount your expecting ( Whatever your Accountant or H& R Block told you)
   
   
   Keep these digits handily in case you need them again next year, in fact I wrote mine down on the front of my tax filings envelope from last year so I will be able to access it fast next year!
   

Contact the IRS: 

http://www.irs.gov/individuals/article/0,,id=96596,00.html