Important Tax Question! HELP!?

Quickly call or visit your bank or credit union (whichever one you listed on the tax return) with a copy of your tax return. If you got the nine digit routing number entered correctly the funds will initially be made available to your bank. If they know you missed a digit on the acct #, and the name and routing info is otherwise correct and identifies you as the intended recipient, they may well ensure the money is placed in the correct acct.

Typically state refunds are slower than federal...not always...but often. So let them know you've got the same problem with the state return.

If you don't find your banking folks to be cooperative, the money will simply go back to the IRS and they'll cut you a check. Don't think you can fix this by phone...no way for IRS/state to know it's you or someone posing as you.

Good luck!

Go back to E-file and see if there's a phone number or an email address. You're probably not the only person to have ever done this, and there's somewhere somehow a provision for it.

You could also call the local IRS office and ask them. Now would be a good time, since most of us haven't gotten our W2s yet to even start on our taxes.

Once they are filed, there is nothing you can do to change them.

Your direct deposit will bounce back to the Feds.

They will then send a check to the address on the return but I am not sure as to when the check will go out.

The state will probably do the same thing.

The direct deposit will bounce. The IRS and the state will automatically issue paper checks and send them to you.

There is no way to fix a bad account number.

I think they will contact you to obtain the correct number, hopefully, you put your phone number on it and they'll call, otherwise expect the usual prompt service of the IRS and they will send out a notification via snail mail and you'll lose several weeks waiting for the refund. good luck.