It's been more than 10 weeks and the IRS is still playing with my **bleep** money

[Kearacuster]

Same Problem I Have ! 

[Takobell]

What’s the number to if verification?? Pleeeease!!??

[bigbrock1]

I have the same problem. I filed the 1st week of March it was accepted like March 13th by the irs as was my state taxes. Like you the 10 weeks is long past and still no nothing. What the hell is the since in using TurboTax to file taxes and pay them to do them if they can't fix a problem to get people their refunds. I could save myself a couple hundred bucks doin my own taxes and wouldn't have any longer a wait for my returns. How do I cancel the agreement with TurboTax? Its f**ked up ya can't even talk to a real person and get answers. Think im going to contact a lawyer, cuz so far TurboTax ain't done **bleep**. Free file woulda been better and probably quicker. Anybody got any answers?

[xmasbaby0]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/where-is-my-damn-irs-tax-refund-new-answers-emerge-a...

TurboTax gives you an estimated date for receiving your refund based on a 21 day average from your date of acceptance, but it can take longer.  “21 days”  is not a promise from TurboTax or the IRS.   Many refunds are taking longer during the pandemic.  The IRS is backlogged —-they are still trying to process millions of 2019 returns; they received millions of e-filed on the day they opened for 2020 returns, and now they are burdened with sending out another round of stimulus checks.   

Some delays are resulting from incorrect amounts that folks entered for stimulus checks they received.   Many people have been confused by the recovery rebate credit and completed it incorrectly.  The IRS may delay your refund while they cross-check to see what you received.  Some refunds are delayed because of the tax law changes that went into effect recently.   If your return has unemployment or the premium tax credit on it, that may be delaying it.

First, check your e-file status to see if your return was accepted: 

https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/efile-status-lookup/

Once your federal return has been accepted by the IRS, only the IRS has any control.  TurboTax does not receive any updates from the IRS. Your ONLY source of information about your refund now is the IRS.

You need your filing status, your Social Security number and the exact amount  (line 34of your 2020 Form 1040) of your federal refund to track your Federal refund:   

https://www.irs.gov/refunds

To track your state refund:    

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1899433-how-do-i-track-my-state-refund

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1901548-why-do-some-refunds-take-longer-than-others

If you chose to have your TurboTax fees deducted from your federal refund, that will take some extra time, while the third party bank handles the refund processing.

https://www.irs.gov/refunds/tax-season-refund-frequently-asked-questions

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/2840013-does-accepted-mean-my-refund-is-approved

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/2724106-my-return-is-accepted-but-still-not-approved-is-there-a-pr...

From this IRS website - https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-operations-during-covid-19-mission-critical-functions-continue

As of May 15, 2021, we had 300,000 individual tax returns received prior to 2021 in the processing pipeline. Including current year returns, as of May 15, 2021, we had 16.4 million unprocessed individual returns in the pipeline. Unprocessed returns include those requiring correction to the Recovery Rebate Credit amount or validation of 2019 income used to figure the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC). This work does not require us to correspond with taxpayers but does require special handling by an IRS employee so, in these instances, it is taking the IRS more than 21 days to issue any related refund. If, as a result, a correction is made to any RRC, EITC or ACTC claimed on the return, the IRS will send taxpayers an explanation. Taxpayers are encouraged to continue to check Where’s My Refund? for their personalized refund status and can review Tax Season Refund Frequently Asked Questions.

[Metalman_ct]

I know the reason my & many others tax returns are delayed is because of the recovery rebate tax credit. Those are automatically moved to the ‘errors’ department, and they have to be completed MANUALLY. I found this out when I FINALLY was able to speak to an actual person from the IRS. Can the recovery rebate credit be removed to speed up my return? 

[xmasbaby0]

@Metalman_ct No you cannot remove the recovery rebate credit.   You cannot change anything on a return that has been filed and accepted.   Sorry but all you can do is wait out the processing.   

[Metalman_ct]

What about using a 1040x form? Isn’t that what that’s for? 

[xmasbaby0]

@Metalman_ct NO!!!!!!    A 1040X is used to amend a fully processed tax return.    It takes the IRS about six months or more to process a Form 1040X right now.    Using the amendment process to "speed up" your refund would have the opposite effect.   It would put two returns from the same Social Security number into the system at the same time---causing confusion and more delays.   Do not attempt to amend your tax return in a misguided attempt to get your refund quicker.

[Metalman_ct]

Thank you for the advice. 

[tae111]

I used TurboTax Deluxe to do our taxes. We filed Married jointly. We have only pension and social security income so it wasn't a complicated return. TurboTax indicated that our return had no issues during the review. The federal return was accepted on 2/25/2021. As of this date, over 15 weeks, the IRS site says our return is still processing. I've heard more excuses than peanuts in a bag about why they are late but this is beyond ridiculous. Even though I have always trusted TurboTax, always pay my taxes, and don't try to scam the IRS for more money than I'm due in the back of my mind I'm thinking it's been so long maybe mistakes were made and now the IRS is coming for me. That may sound paranoid but years ago the IRS made a mistake and basically accused me of tax fraud. I was able to provide the documentation proving  they messed up but it was no fun dealing with these people even if your 100% in the right.    

[xmasbaby0]

@tae111 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/taxes/the-irs-is-behind-in-processing-nearly-7-million-tax-returns-s...

https://abc7.com/irs-refund-tax-delay-returns-status/10435366/

https://money.yahoo.com/irs-employees-say-out-of-ink-printers-are-delaying-tax-returns-171522801.htm...

Called the IRS lately? Agency struggles to hire customer service reps despite pandemic unemployment ...

https://money.yahoo.com/taxpayers-waiting-to-get-last-years-tax-refund-190333088.html

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/where-is-my-damn-irs-tax-refund-new-answers-emerge-a...

TurboTax gives you an estimated date for receiving your refund based on a 21 day average from your date of acceptance, but it can take longer.  “21 days”  is not a promise from TurboTax or the IRS.   Many refunds are taking longer during the pandemic.  The IRS is backlogged —-they are still trying to process millions of 2019 returns; they received millions of e-filed on the day they opened for 2020 returns, and now they are burdened with sending out another round of stimulus checks.   

Some delays are resulting from incorrect amounts that folks entered for stimulus checks they received.   Many people have been confused by the recovery rebate credit and completed it incorrectly.  The IRS may delay your refund while they cross-check to see what you received.  Some refunds are delayed because of the tax law changes that went into effect recently.   If your return has unemployment or the premium tax credit on it, that may be delaying it.

First, check your e-file status to see if your return was accepted: 

https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/efile-status-lookup/

Once your federal return has been accepted by the IRS, only the IRS has any control.  TurboTax does not receive any updates from the IRS. Your ONLY source of information about your refund now is the IRS.

You need your filing status, your Social Security number and the exact amount  (line 34of your 2020 Form 1040) of your federal refund to track your Federal refund:   

https://www.irs.gov/refunds

To track your state refund:    

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1899433-how-do-i-track-my-state-refund

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1901548-why-do-some-refunds-take-longer-than-others

If you chose to have your TurboTax fees deducted from your federal refund, that will take some extra time, while the third party bank handles the refund processing.

https://www.irs.gov/refunds/tax-season-refund-frequently-asked-questions

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/2840013-does-accepted-mean-my-refund-is-approved

https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/2724106-my-return-is-accepted-but-still-not-approved-is-there-a-pr...

From this IRS website - https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-operations-during-covid-19-mission-critical-functions-continue

As of May 15, 2021, we had 300,000 individual tax returns received prior to 2021 in the processing pipeline. Including current year returns, as of May 15, 2021, we had 16.4 million unprocessed individual returns in the pipeline. Unprocessed returns include those requiring correction to the Recovery Rebate Credit amount or validation of 2019 income used to figure the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC). This work does not require us to correspond with taxpayers but does require special handling by an IRS employee so, in these instances, it is taking the IRS more than 21 days to issue any related refund. If, as a result, a correction is made to any RRC, EITC or ACTC claimed on the return, the IRS will send taxpayers an explanation. Taxpayers are encouraged to continue to check Where’s My Refund? for their personalized refund status and can review Tax Season Refund Frequently Asked Questions.

[reber1ine]

Here's my issue with TurboTax. One of the Champ's here has posted the standard message from the IRS website a couple of times, but conveniently doesn't bold the following portion of the IRS' message:

Unprocessed returns include those requiring correction to the Recovery Rebate Credit amount or validation of 2019 income used to figure the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC). This work does not require us to correspond with taxpayers but does require special handling by an IRS employee so, in these instances, it is taking the IRS more than 21 days to issue any related refund. If, as a result, a correction is made to any RRC, EITC or ACTC claimed on the return, the IRS will send taxpayers an explanation. 

These provisions were passed into tax law legislatively, but TurboTax informs you as you prepared your 2020 tax return for the EITC that using the 2019 income would increase your credit (and your refund).  That election is what is causing the delay since the 2019 income has to be manually verified. TurboTax KNEW THIS before tax returns due date. Why didn't they provide a message indicating there could be a delay if the 2019 income was used and indicate the benefit/increase in the credit for using the 2019 income, so you could decide if it was worth risking the additional wait time for your refund? In this case, my 27 yo son's refund was only increased by $4 as a result of using the 2019 income. Sure would have been nice to understand that and I would have made the safer election (using 2020 income). We're up to 60 days since his return was accepted and this kid is only working part-time jobs and in need of his refund. This is the 2nd thing TurboTax FFF'd up on 2020 tax filings and makes me seriously question whether I will stop using them going forward. 

[Jamesbarnhart2]

Same thing that is going on with mine I filed my taxes with TurboTax and used the free one on march 9 it was accepted by the IRS march 12th I'm still waiting at the beginning of June and TurboTax sending me bills for my tax prep why do they have a free filing option if they're going to charge you later for it and when I called them and asked them how they could send me a bill for a free filing they said that I asked the professional a question and that changed it to a paid prep are you **bleep**ing serious.  Also asked them how they can send me a 200 and something dollar bill for a question and while I'm still waiting on my refund.  They had the balls to tell me that after they send my tax paperwork to the IRS it's no longer their problem.  Wtf

[Jamesbarnhart2]

That's what they did to me and I used the free option

[Jamesbarnhart2]

Good luck I filed march 9th they accepted it march 12th and I'm still waiting