I e-filed my taxes using TurboTax, and asked for my refund to be deposited directly into my account. I filed late on the night of 4\/14.<\/p>\n
It took less than 10 days for my state refund to be deposited in my account, and less than 11 for my Federal refund. (Really more like 8 and 9 days, respectively, given that the governments in question didn't actually receive the returns 'til the 16th, and the deposits were made early in the morning.)<\/p>\n
That's remarkably fast. Perhaps no faster than in previous years, I dunno. But I'm impressed anyway. Maybe there's something to this idea that computers make things faster after all.<\/p>\n
Heh—maybe magazines should measure their response time relative to governments. If the time it took to get my refund is 1 GRTU (Government Response Time Unit), then F&SF<\/cite>'s average response time would be less than 1 GRTU; SH<\/cite>'s would be about 3 GRTUs.<\/p>\n . . . Okay, I suppose a GRTU really ought to be the average response time of governments to stimuli, which probably means it's on the order of months or years. So never mind.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I e-filed my taxes using TurboTax, and asked for my refund to be deposited directly into my account. I filed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}