Update to my previous post
I'm updating my previous post. I received my federal individual income tax refund by direct deposit on the morning of February 27, 2009 - right on schedule.
Is everyone else out there seeing a similarly consistent experience with their filings and refunds? Feel free to post your comments to this blog and share your experiences.
Is everyone else out there seeing a similarly consistent experience with their filings and refunds? Feel free to post your comments to this blog and share your experiences.
posted by Scott at
2:03 PM
3 Comments:
There is no relationship between the state refund and the federal refund. Your state happens to have a schedule that, apparently, has its refund coming a few days before the federal refund. So does mine. But the two events are unrelated.
As for your refund date being pushed out, yes, I have seen that consistently among my clients' returns. Apparently the published refund schedule is meaningless this year. Instead of the 8-14 days direct-deposited refunds from electronically filed returns that we have enjoyed for the last several years, it seems now to be 15-21 days.
Jancpa,
I did not imply a relationship between state and federal refunds. The IRS and the various state tax authorities operate independently of one another. My post was in response to concerns some have expressed about if/when they will receive state or federal tax refunds.
I offered my experience merely as an annecdote/example. Ohio seems to be maintaining a schedule similar to last year, as is the federal government. Unfortunately some states are not adhering to the same refund schedules they followed last year. A lot of people in states like California are concerned about this.
Actually, the federal refunds are the ones taking about a week longer than they have for the past several years, longer than the published schedule states. This has happened to too many -- not all, but many -- of my clients now for me to dismiss it as a brief anomaly. In years past, it virtually never happened.
It is very unlikely that anyone entitled to a state or federal refund will not receive it. The timing, however, can be affected by countless factors, most of them benign. It's too soon for anyone to worry.
Forgive me if this has already been said, but the IRS and many states give you online access to the status of your refund.
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