India, Feb. 18 -- The US' Internal Revenue Service (IRS) began accepting tax returns on January 27. The agency expects it could receive over 140 million individual tax returns by the April 15 federal deadline - which would lead to millions of people asking when they would get their refund money.

The IRS revealed that about 28% of the 11.7 million returns that were processed resulted in direct-deposit refunds in the first week of filing. Janet Holtzblatt, a senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, told NPR that when the current filing season began, "the IRS was coming in in a strong position. That's good for taxpayers."

Those who are planning to file or have already filed can track the progress of their return for tax year...