No, a tax transcript won’t help you determine when you’ll get your refund. IRS transcripts are best and most often used to validate past income and tax filing status for a mortgage, student, and small business loan applications and to help with tax preparation.
The best way to check on your refund is by visiting Where’s My Refund?. The codes listed on tax transcripts don’t provide any early insight regarding when the IRS will issue your refund.