Sometimes people get confused by the “summary” given by TurboTax and use the wrong amount for the federal refund.Make sure you are only using the federal refund amount, and not an amount that combined your federal and state refunds.
Your federal refund amount is on line 35a of your Form 1040
Return Received – We received your return and are processing it.
Refund Approved – We approved your refund and are preparing to issue it by the date shown.
Refund Sent – We sent the refund to your bank or to you in the mail. It may take 5 days for it to show in your bank account or several weeks for your check to arrive in the mail.
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Did you e-file your tax return and was it accepted?
You complete your tax return by finishing all3 Stepsin theFilesection. InStep 3, to e-file your tax return, you must click on the large button labeled "Transmit my returns now".
After completing theFilesection and e-filing your tax return you will receive two emails from TurboTax. The first email when your tax return was transmitted and the second email when the tax return has either been accepted or rejected.
To check the status of an e-filed return, open up your desktop product or log into your TurboTax Online Account. You can find your status within the TurboTax product.
What is the status of your e-filed tax return?
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