O.K. so now you have e-filed your Internal Revenue Service (IRS) income tax return and are feeling pretty proud of yourself. But oh no. Oh @#$%! Where is your refund? The Fed claims to issue refunds in 10-12 days but it is now over two weeks and the dough ain’t showing up in your account.

I’m told the Fed’s are standing by to help (of course you wouldn’t need the help if they would have issued your refund check as promised!) Anyway, if there is a problem go to www.irs.gov then type in “refund status” in the search box and you can find an update on your account. For tax year 2011, visit "Where's My Refund?" for details on the IRS refund status.

For those of you now frustrated with the whole hi-tech filing stuff there is a hot line…yes a phone number to call to get answers to your refunds questions 800-829-1954. The Income Tax Refund hot-line hours are 7am to 7pm weekdays. O.K. This is good. Now, time to start thinking of ways to spend that extra cash?!