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Meanwhile, I still haven't gotten my tax refund for 2020. Mind you, I am in no hurry, it isn't like I am desperate for that amount. Aside from a very slight a
by at_a_remove 5y ago
Meanwhile, I still haven't gotten my tax refund for 2020. Mind you, I am in no hurry, it isn't like I am desperate for that amount. Aside from a very slight anxiety that my paperwork (and it was paper) got lost, getting last year's refund in the month of December (yes, the last one of the year) was an interesting if small indicator of just how poorly the federal government was doing at the time.
- nradov 5y agohttps://www.irs.gov/refunds https://www.irs.gov/refunds Check your refund status. If you haven't received it yet then you might be a victim of tax fraud. Or the IRS is reviewing your return for possible audit.
- at_a_remove 5y agoI check that weekly, as I did last year. And I would be one of the last people reviewed, my taxes are dead simple and I use TurboTax anyway because I am a coward. My guess is that it will be late again.
- OldHand2018 5y agoAre you expecting a paper check? Have you checked your tax transcript? When you go to that page on your IRS account, you get 4 boxes to choose from. 2020 should be in all boxes by now. I think it is the top left one, but once that is populated your refund has been put in the queue. My data showed up there about a week and a half ago, and I got the direct deposit yesterday (with interest). A coworker had his data show up at the same time but he is still waiting on the paper check.
- at_a_remove 5y agoAh, I don't have an account. It'll show when it shows ... I am pretty relaxed about it. It's just interesting to me to see the delay.
- OldHand2018 5y agoIt's probably worth setting one up. The tax transcript page lets you see all the forms that they've received and attributed to you (W-2s, 1099s, etc) as well as the machine-read values of all the filings you've sent them.
- at_a_remove 5y agoI see now why I have not done this before. I do not understand anything related to taxes in the slightest. The Record of Account Transcript has "N/A" for this year, while the column to the left of it, headed Return Transcript, has 2020 with a star by it, which "Indicates the availability of a Verification of Non-Filing letter for the year." This does not make sense to me, since the instructions on the refund checking page say to not send a second return if they haven't gotten to yours yet. So I am more in the dark than when I started.
- OldHand2018 5y agoIf you filed electronically and received an acceptance, then they have your return. Once they start processing it, the N/A and the "Verification of Non-Filing" disappear. When they are done, the real data appears in the N/A spot. Basically, don't bother checking the refund status until the N/A goes away. From [1] > As of August 13, 2021, we had 11.1 million unprocessed individual returns. You are one of them :( [1] https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-operations-during-covid-19-mission-critical-functions-continue https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-operations-during-covid-19-...
- ezfe 5y agoI didn't receive my 2021 tax refund for a few weeks and gave them a call. It turned out that something had gotten stuck and they pushed it through. Got it a week later. The paper returns were taking forever last year due to COVID, but I filed my 2020 refund by paper and got that last summer as well. If you haven't already, call them and figure out what happened.
- lostmsu 5y agoYou are not alone. Based on comments here, I'm gonna call them.