HarryTheSpider

Filed our taxes (via accountant) electronically last Friday (exactly 1 week ago).

Got both state & Fed refunds in the bank account today - 7 days later!!

I hope many others are seeing equally speedy responses.

Could it be that looming sequester etc is motivating people at these agencies to just approve 'normal' looking tax returns & refunds quicker (our tax situation is pretty simple)... or did we just get lucky?

Bob

Last year, our state refund was really quick, fed took for ever because they needed another copy of something, that we had already sent in.

Been a couple of weeks and nothing this year. The thing that held it up for us was waiting on the letter of medical insurance cover, this is a MA thing, but we wanted to file both at the same time. That and it took forever for the state to issue state return forms this year.

Sally Redux

Wow! I heard sequestration was going to hold everything up.

Leslie

It was the fiscal cliff that was supposed to hold things up and, for some people, it is causing problems.

PS - Happy Sequestration Day

Sally Redux

Thanks. Being selfish, hoping it doesn't stop some NIH funding my husband is supposed to be getting.

Leslie

That's not selfish. A lot of people have a stake in what could potentially happen. This is not the time for this country to take another blow to the economy, imo.

Sally Redux

Indeed.

SpoogleDrummer

I filed as soon as I got my W-2 and had the money in the bank by the 4th of February so it was pretty quick for me this year too.

Duncan Roberts

We had to mail ours in. It's been 3 weeks and still not showing anything on the refund tracker. Rubbish I tell you.

RICH

Crap. I haven't filed yet, and now it occurs to me they won't be in any hurry to issue any refunds. The refund department will no doubt be on furlow from next week.