Teletax

Have you ever wished there was a way to access prerecorded tax information 24 hours a day, seven days a week? Who hasn’t, right? Well, good news: there is a way, and it’s called Teletax.

Teletax is an IRS-provided, fully automated call-in service that has bajillions of prerecorded messages on over 150 different tax topics. Imagine how many hours could be whiled away listening to IRS messages on 150 tax topics. Forget Netflix binging—we know what we’re doing next weekend.

But Teletax isn’t just for random pre-recorded tax messages. We can also use it to check the status of our own taxes, like learning when that refund is going to show up in our account, or finding out what that scary-sounding IRS letter we got last week means.

So...not only is it entertaining and educational, it can also be super useful. All we have to do is call in—the number is 800-829-1040, which is pretty clever—and we can choose from a plethora of topics by entering a three-digit code between 100 and 999. The IRS’s website has a list of all the Teletax topics and their codes, if anyone’s looking to get organized before next weekend’s Teletax binge.