What if the IRS hasn't processed our 2019 return yet?

[tgironda]

Trying to e-file for 2020 but the IRS hasn't processed our 2019 paper return

[SweetieJean]

The IRS shut down processing anything on paper for several months due to COVID.  Tyr efiling your 2020 return using 0 (zero) for the 2019 AGI.

[tgironda]

Thank you. Yes I am efiling from here on out

[CephasTheRoadking]

I'm in the same boat. Did making your AGI zero allow you to e-file?

[tgironda]

I actually called and an agent told me to check the box, right before filing, that says I didn’t file my 2019 return. Because at this point there is no record. Basically all this question was trying to do is verify my identity. So then I just had to put in my DL #. It was filed and accepted, so all is well.

[SweetieJean]

Remember COVID?  The IRS was shut down for several months, so no mail of any type was even being opened. 

The Internal Revenue Service said in mid-February that it had yet to process 6.7 million individual income tax returns for 2019, based on data through Jan. 30.

[CephasTheRoadking]

They had to have opened my mailed-in tax return because they cashed the check that was in the envelope.