I need help

[Au111]

Honestly I don’t know what’s going on because I am I mailed my tax return but I use my direct deposit, I know it says it takes up to six weeks maybe longer but it’s a been about six weeks or maybe longer I filed around March at the beginning of March about the third but I understand it takes like a week or so to get to where it needs to go maybe a little bit longer but I think it’s been long enough for me to be able to receive my tax return but but I haven’t received a rejection or approved or anything through my email so honestly I don’t know if I got rejected or approved or not but I’ve been waiting for a while to see if my taxes would go through my direct deposit but I haven’t received anything so I have no clue what’s going on and I’ve been trying to reach them or even ask them about it all they told me Through a machine, they can’t help me or tell me when I’m gonna receive My tax return and that’s all I get I don’t get any real person to talk to you or anything like that just constantly a machine telling me they don’t know or something went wrong

[bluedeb · Accepted solution]

If you mailed in your return, it can take up to 6 months for a mailed in return to be processed.  The IRS is backlogged and taking allot longer to process mailed in returns, so time lines of when a return/refund would be processed is not the norm because of the backlog.  

On an mailed in return you don't get a notice whether your return has been accepted or rejected.  You can keep checking the IRS website, Where's My Refund.  The website only updates once a day.

https://www.irs.gov/refunds

Is the IRS still behind processing paper returns?

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the IRS has fallen nearly a year behind in processing paper tax returns. As of March 18, 2022, the paper return backlog stood at nearly 15 million. Most taxpayers receive refunds, so return processing delays generally mean refund delays.  Apr 15, 2022