Filed income tax returns months ago and still await refunds? Here’s what you must do Checking the status of your returns on the tax-filing portal helps December 21, 2020 / 09:51 AM IST With the outbreak of COVID-19, the tax calendar for the year too has deviated from the normal course. Though the tax-filing deadline has been moved to December 31, 2020, the non-receipt of tax refunds is worrying those who filed their returns way back in June-July 2020. To be sure, you are entitled to income-tax refunds within days – at most months – after you file your returns. As per the last communication from Central Board of Direct Taxes, refunds worth Rs 45,274 crore of a little over 1 crore individual taxpayers have been issued during the current financial year, as on December 14, 2020. This leads to an average refund of Rs 45,260 per person.