The Department of Revenue reports that state tax refunds are back on schedule.
Spokesman Thomas Beam said the agency had sent out 2.7 million refunds totaling $1.9 billion as of May 13.
At the same time last year, the state had dispatched 2.5 million refunds totaling $1.7 billion.
The agency still has plenty of refunds to process, but it has eliminated the approximately four week delay that had taxpayers snarling last month. Revenue department officials had slowed down the refund process because the state's cashflow had grown particularly tight as the recession took a toll on the money flowing in to the state.
Tax returns submitted in April are still being processed, Beam said. Department officials previously said the typical turnaround time is six to 12 weeks for paper tax returns and two to four weeks for electronic returns.
UPDATE: The remaining returns filed on paper in April should take about six weeks to process, while electronic filings from last month should take two to four weeks, Beam said. He estimated there are 135,000 more returns from April to process.
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