{"id":10998,"date":"2022-08-16T08:25:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T08:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.40.31.108\/?p=10998"},"modified":"2022-08-21T09:41:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T09:41:30","slug":"irs-still-has-a-backlog-of-10-2-million-unprocessed-tax-returns-what-can-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/irs-still-has-a-backlog-of-10-2-million-unprocessed-tax-returns-what-can-you-do\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS still has a backlog of 10.2 million unprocessed tax returns. What can you do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11017 alignleft\" src=\"\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IRS-Backlog-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IRS-Backlog-300x188.jpg 300w, \/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IRS-Backlog.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Despite making progress in cutting its backlog, the Internal Revenue Service still facing more than 10 million unprocessed returns, and its correspondent refunds.<\/p>\n<p>As of July 29, the agency had 10.2 million unprocessed individual tax year 2021 returns. Of these, 1.8 million required correction of errors or other special handling and 8.4 million are paper returns waiting to be reviewed and processed. These 8.4 million are counted but not registered so, the tax payer has no way to find out if the IRS has received or not. The IRS keeps reminding that to resend again the return will only bring confusion and more delays, so the IRS strongly ask to wait a few more weeks to get updated.<\/p>\n<p>In these cases, taxpayers can expect it to take as long as 6 months to receive their refund.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Waiting on a refund?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What should you do if you\u2019re one of the ones still waiting for a return to be processed and a refund to be delivered?<\/p>\n<p>The IRS suggests taxpayers check the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/refunds\">Where\u2019s My Refund?<\/a>\u201d via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/newsroom\/irs2goapp\">IRS2Go app<\/a>\u00a0if their refund is delayed. The IRS confirmed some tax returns will be delayed if they are filed by paper, but here are the many other reasons your refund may be delayed, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Needs a correction to the Recovery Rebate Credit amount<\/li>\n<li>Needs a correction to the Child Tax Credit amount<\/li>\n<li>Is incomplete<\/li>\n<li>Is affected by identity theft or fraud<\/li>\n<li>Includes a claim filed for an Earned Income Tax Credit or an Additional Child Tax Credit using 2019 income.<\/li>\n<li>Includes a Form 8379, Injured Spouse Allocation, which could take up to 14 weeks to process<\/li>\n<li>Needs further review in general<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the website doesn\u2019t answer your questions, you can try and call the IRS but that can be a challenge. The agency said you should only call if:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s been 21 days or more since you e-filed<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s been more than 6 months since you mailed your paper return<\/li>\n<li>Where\u2019s My Refund says we can provide more information to you over the phone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Based on the article of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/staff\/LeadaGore\/posts.html\">Leada Gore<\/a> from last week. More information on previous posts:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/irs-confirms-that-original-tax-returns-filed-in-2021-will-be-completed-this-week\/\">IRS confirms that original tax returns filed in 2021 will be completed this week &#8211; US Tax Consultants<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/irs-commissioner-promises-to-process-millions-of-unprocessed-returns-before-december-2022\/\">IRS commissioner promises to process millions of unprocessed returns before December 2022 &#8211; US Tax Consultants<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite making progress in cutting its backlog, the Internal Revenue Service still facing more than 10 million unprocessed returns, and its correspondent refunds. As of July 29, the agency had 10.2 million unprocessed individual tax year 2021 returns. Of these, 1.8 million required correction of errors or other special handling and 8.4 million are paper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}