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.
So the IRS finalizes their forms and then the states finalize their forms. And then the TurboTax programmers get the forms and have to integrate them into the TurboTax program. Then there is testing to make sure that the newly added forms work with the program properly. Then they are rolled out to the public. As inconvenient as the waiting is it will still get your tax return processed faster than paper filing it.
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