2020 Taxes

[luvgirlsfeet]

Hi everyone,

In April of 2021 my wife and I submitted our tax returns for 2020 and to this day. January 7th, 2022 we still haven't received out tax return. I've tried through the IRS website and I keep getting the same message. They have our tax returns but they haven't been processed yet.

My question is I can't be the only one on this site with a similar issue, Am I?

 

[COOLCAT88]

Did you happen to owe anything by any chance?

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[luvgirlsfeet]

No, I couldn't imagine it taking 9 months to process

 

[rdhd]

Had you owed something and didn't include the payment, you can bet your sweet bippy you'd have heard from them.

 

[luvgirlsfeet]

Had you owed something and didn't include the payment, you can bet your sweet bippy you'd have heard from them.

Exactly, that's why I'm stumped I would have received a letter. I know because of the unemployment I had for 6 months due to the virus my taxes had to be amended

 

[Fat Bastard]

You're not alone. IRS is way behind with last year's returns and looks like it's going to get worse this year.

"The IRS is already behind going into the 2022 tax-filing season, the report noted. The agency has a backlog of 6 million unprocessed original individual returns, 2.3 million unprocessed amended individual returns, over 2 million unprocessed employer’s quarterly tax returns, and about 5 million pieces of taxpayer correspondence – some dating back to April — as of late December."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/per...s-kryptonite/ar-AASHCW4?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

 

[BlasterMaster]

This is what happens when Congress underfunds an entire department of the government and then a pandemic hits.

 

[MrMacphisto]

This is what happens when Congress underfunds an entire department of the government and then a pandemic hits.

It wouldn't require much funding to begin with if we simplified the tax code enough that the average person didn't need an accountant to file taxes. People always talk about the rich using too many loopholes, but the easiest way around that is to just implement a flat tax with no deductions allowed.

You could handle tax collection with a small fraction of the current IRS payroll with that system.