Where's My Refund: Check Your IRS Tax Refund In VA

VIRGINIA — Taxpayers in Virginia who plan to file their 2024 federal income tax refunds in the opening days of the 2025 tax season can check the status of their refunds using the Internal Revenue Service’s Where’s My Refund tool.

Taxpayers filing electronically can get a status report within 24 hours, while it may take four weeks for taxpayers who filed paper returns to get information about when to expect their refunds.

Information is updated overnight every day, so there’s no need to check multiple times a day.

Refund information is available for the 2024 and previous two tax years, according to the IRS. The agency also said it expects to maintain levels of service achieved in the past, including wait times of less than five minutes for assistance.

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“Wait times are longer on Mondays and Tuesdays, during Presidents Day weekend and around the April tax filing deadline,” the IRS website says.

Also, the IRS says, refunds may be delayed if returns need corrections or an extra review. The agency will send a letter to those taxpayers.

The IRS expects 140 million people to file individual returns before the filing deadline on Tuesday, April 15. State income tax deadlines also fall on April 15 in most states. There are some exceptions, and nine states — Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and Wyoming —do not have a state income tax.

The Where’s My Refund tool only works for federal returns.