replying to daniellehutson
According to my understanding, all the TT acceptance means is that the efiled return has been successfully transmitted to the IRS and accepted for processing--this does not constitute approval of your return/refund by the IRS, just that the return has been accepted for processing and is in line for processing. The IRS then processes the returns and at that point it is beyond TT control. Many of us have had problems getting TT to timely transmit our returns to the IRS. So at least you are ahead of a number of us wrt that issue who couldn't even get to that point without efiling elsewhere or sending in a paper return. And again, unfortunately the 21 days to process efiled returns by the IRS is not a guarantee, it is only typical/general estimate and the time period generally gets longer as the due date for returns approaches since especially this year people apparently are behind on filing compared to last year according to financial sites. The IRS appears to be legally obligated to pay interest from the due date of the return after 45 days (not when the return is actually filed if earlier) assuming no issues/errors. The government without legal basis cannot just permanently keep your refund and the interest rule/statute was apparently enacted to help discourage the government from just holding onto people's refunds indefinitely without legal basis.
I know we are all eager to get our refunds but if there is proof the efiled return is in IRS processing then unfortunately there is likely not much that can be done unless the delay is substantial. And if the IRS site actually shows your refund has been approved it should also show when the refund has been mailed/deposited. If that is the case and you haven't seen your refund then you should carefully check electronic deposit information for example as there have been instances where incorrect routing information ended up depositing people's refunds in the wrong accounts. And if you expect a mailed refund, you might consider signing up for delivery notifications with the USPS because in my experience frequently with all our USPS delivery problems on our rural route we and our neighbors ended up missing important mail fairly frequently (we all have security mailboxes). We all made numerous complaints for years and it finally turned out after neighbors canvassed the area that our mail was being thrown out by the USPS employee instead of delivering the mail in order to end work early.
And yes the constant bombardment of standard emails from TT with incorrect information about refund status or approval is hugely irritating. I get such emails about my return and other inapplicable information such as not filing w2s for example--I am retired, I don't have any--almost every day. Would block but am worried that I might miss an important notice.
You could always try contacting your state senator/congress person which might be more helpful than the IRS but it is likely too early/not enough time has passed for it to be taken up for assistance. As I indicated, there are a number of financial sites that speculate IRS processing may be slower than normal for a number of reasons.
Sorry you are in this situation along with a lot of us.
