@Marhck4 - here is what is 'going on'. The IRS is woefully backlogged this year due to a) all the complex laws related to COVID that Congress passed, b) and those laws did not provide the IRS with additional funding for more resources, c) many IRS employees being out sick (like the rest of us) early this year with COVID, which put them behind and d) dealing with all the errors tax payers made related to the special COVID rules Congress passed, especially the 3rd stimulus, the Advance Child Tax Credit and Earned income Tax credit.
it has nothing to do with Turbo Tax and Turbo Tax would have no insight into the IRS challenges beyond what in the press and discussed by Congress.
@DoninGA posted the most recent update from the IRS, which is published weekly, indicating the depth of their backlog. Best I can figure from this Board and FaceBook grounds, paper filed returns are taking 6-9 months to process (the IRS generally processes in the order received and appear to be working on late Feb and Early March returns currently and amendments appear to be taking a good 9 months as well to process.
