Many people know this, but checking your income tax return status is easy and free to do online. You can check your tax return status regardless of whether your return was mailed in or e-filed. The only catch is that the IRS has to have actually received and processed your return before they will update that status. You will also need to know some information from your tax return including expected return amount and filing status.

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