05/25/2022
IRS upgrades Where’s My Refund tool to track refunds for two years
The Internal Revenue Service has enhanced its “Where’s My Refund?” online tool, introducing a new feature this week that enables taxpayers to check the status of their current tax year and tax refunds for the two previous years as the agency continues to come under fire for processing backlogs from 2021.
With the upgrade, taxpayers can now select any of the three most recent tax years to check their refund status. They will need to enter either their Social Security number or ITIN, filing status and expected refund amount from the original filed tax return for the tax year they’re checking.
Before the update, the app only showed the status of the most recently filed tax return within the past two tax years. Information available to those calling the tax refund hotline will be limited to the 2021 tax return, however.
