02/13/2022
Recent information from the IRS shows that 24 million 2020 returns still haven’t been processed, with refunds taking 10 months or longer for some taxpayers. This backlog will impact 2021 tax return processing times and continues to impact the time it takes to resolve tax matters with the agency.
The inventory of unprocessed returns and related correspondence was provided by the IRS’s taxpayer advocate service to the tax-writing committees in Congress. The Treasury Department, the IRS’s parent agency, warned in January that it expected its response to be subpar this year.