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Taxpayers who file a return that has been deemed incomplete or must be amended can expect to receive their refund within 8-12 weeks after the confirmation of filing is provided. If you file a Form 8379 (Injured Spouse Allocation), expect your refund to take even longer depending on the situation.
Once its accepted most returns are processed in 21 days or less and in many cases within one week. I think a lot of people are misunderstanding your question, and are answering how long it takes to RECEIVE your refund...not how long the IRS takes to approve that you're receiving a refund. 24 hours, though, usually. Any length of time. For simple returns where the taxpayer hasn't moved, hasn't changed jobs, isn't asking for credits and filed after the IRS had their W-2 on file, maybe 8 days. For everyone else, it could be 3 weeks (90%) to 6 months (the other 10%).