Where Is My NY State Tax Refund?

Find out when you should receive your 2012 New York state tax refund

Are you still waiting on a tax refund from New York state? You can check the status of your state refund online by using the Income Tax Refund Status tool on the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance website. If you prefer to use the phone you can also check the status of your refund by calling 518-457-5149.

These days you can expect your federal refund from the IRS in under twenty-one days. In some cases they are even fast enough to get your money out in a week. State operations are not quite so sophisticated.

New York says to expect your refund six to eight weeks after they receive your return. As with federal taxes, the fastest way to get your refund is by e-filing your return and then requesting your refund by direct deposit. Mailing your return in to the tax office and requesting a paper check will both slow down the refund process.

If you really want to know when you’ll get your refund the moment that information become available, you can sign up to receive an email from New York State as soon as they process your return. The message will include the amount of your refund, the expected payment date, and the payment method. In order to receive this email, you have to sign up through the online services.

The best advice I can give when it comes to tax refunds is just to be patient – this advice holds true for your federal taxes but it’s even more true at the state level. Government isn’t known as a model of efficiency. Checking your refund status twelve times a day isn’t going to get your money any faster, but it might make the state’s refund status tool crash.

Just as a reminder for all of you who haven’t filed yet, the deadline for filing your 2012 New York state tax return in April 15, 2013, the same as it is for your federal return. File your taxes with RapidTax now and you can take care of your state and federal return at the same time.

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248 Replies to “Where Is My NY State Tax Refund?”

  1. Looks like NYS is broke. They gladly over-taxed us and probably believed their own fairly tale economic reports, and now that it’s time to pay us back they are wasting time. Hopefully it doesn’t get to the levels of SS and other items people pay into and then are called “entitlements” when the government has to actually pay out.

  2. I signed up for them to let me know via email when it is available. But whats up with this generic message alot of us seem to be getting with the “needed further review, 60 day ” message ? I spoke with a very nice gentleman there and they said alot of people ARE getting that message but not to be concerned. Anyone else having this issue? I filed through a CPA and my daughter who did it herself using TT already got hers and we filed the exact same time =/

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