Anybody else getting a a delay message about your tax return? I filed on 1/14/2022 and I it was accepted 1/24/2022 but now I have no updates on the status bar

[Angel19731]

I haven't had a single update since the 21st. However I do have the EITC on mine so that seems to delay things a bit.  Those can't even be sent through until technically today.  And from what I have read it seems may not even get refunds until March 1. 

[RobertB4444]

The IRS started this filing season further behind than they have ever been in history.  Dealing with the IRS this year is not the same as the IRS of past years.  

This is the national taxpayer advocate's report to Congress for this year.  It's got a lot of information in it but its biggest takeaways are that the IRS started 2021's filing season with 6 million 2020 returns, 2.3 million amended returns, 5 million quarterly returns and 5 million pieces of correspondence unprocessed.  That was how they started the year.

It's just getting more interesting from there.