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My experience has been that it can be relatively faster. That is, the last time I filed online it took I think practically a year before they got to it (I thin
by practicemaths 3y ago
My experience has been that it can be relatively faster.
That is, the last time I filed online it took I think practically a year before they got to it (I think the year of the pandemic)
I figure there's so few people filing by mail these days that they're able to process them faster than the huge amount of online filing.
I'm guessing they're separate teams (online vs mail). However I have no idea.
Regardless mailing has worked better for me the last couple years.
Additionally I do not have to use the third party ID verify thing (might just be for accessing information on irs.gov) that I am just sure is going to have a breach and can not for the life of me fathom why our government (Federal) needs a private company to verify the identity of a citizen via government (State) resources.
- bombcar 3y agoThe IRS just does some very simple checking and then mails your refund (or accepts your payment) - the actual processing/checking of the return can happen months if not years later.
- LamaOfRuin 3y agoMy understanding is that it is generally under control now, but a couple years ago their processing of paper forms was in fact so backed up that the physical space was over capacity. There was a fair amount of news coverage of this, including photos of the cafeteria in one of their processing centers being packed with paper awaiting processing because there was nowhere else to put it. At one point they also basically declared paper processing bankruptcy and just told people if they had mailed something and were still waiting for a response to just send it again because the first one was probably a lost cause.