It took months for the IRS to tackle all of that correspondence: with numbers twice that high now (and some IRS employees still not back to work), expect similar delays. If you don’t report the correct amount, again it’s going to hold up the tax return processing to who knows when, McCarron said. With respect to taxpayers who submit paper returns, our processing is first in, first out. Many individuals have received those refunds within three or four days of the submission of their electronic file. The delays are mostly due to errors in filing, some having to do with the economic stimulus payments. Paper returns, in particular, have been delayed because IRS staff was not physically in the office for much of last year to process them due to Covid-19 social distancing measures. Taxpayers who choose to electronically file and who request a direct deposit are receiving their refunds within approximately 21 days. Filing electronically is a fast growing alternative to mailing paper returns. However, COVID-19 continues to cause delays in some of our services. He said the IRS is still processing 9.8 million tax returns from 2020. The IRS and Missouri Department of Revenue will begin accepting e-filed.
But much of the backlog also consists of 2020 tax returns. Were open and processing mail, tax returns, payments, refunds and correspondence. Processing an amended return normally can take up to 16 weeks, but lately its been taking the IRS more than 20 weeks because of COVID-related processing delays. In January of 2019, after the partial government shutdown ended, the IRS acknowledged a backlog of nearly 5 million pieces of unopened mail. Some of those returns are paper tax filings from 2019, which the IRS got behind in processing due to the coronavirus pandemic last year. If this feels like deja vu all over again, you're not wrong. For more specific information about the status of your refund after the Illinois Department of Revenue has finished processing it, you can check the. As of January 2020 - that's pre-pandemic - the IRS advised that processing amended returns could take up to 16 weeks (not a typo: 16 weeks).Īccording to the IRS website, if you have filed a paper return, it will be processed in the order it's received. And that doesn't include those taxpayers who have filed amended returns ( previously, amended returns could only be submitted on paper). While most taxpayers file electronically, about 10% of individual taxpayers still file by mail: that amounts to 15 to 16 million people. The tax filing deadline is Monday, April 18, 2022. Realistically, that means that taxpayers who filed returns by paper have experienced significant tax refund delays. The IRS started accepting and processing tax returns for the current tax season from Monday, Jan.
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