Well, I don't know how much good it did for me to use the 8911 and 6251 forms from the IRS website to complete my return and mail it in, rather than wait for turbotax's approved versions. I was able to hand deliver my state and mail my federal tax returns on 2/14/22, but as of this morning -- 3/15/22 -- the online checkers for IRS and the state do not yet acknowledge receipt, even though I hand delivered my state return and put it in their return drop box. So, it is possible that waiting the four weeks for TT to make the forms available to the desktop software and then just filing electronically would have resulted in getting the refunds earlier than using paper submittals. Then again, I have always hand delivered my state, and got the refund in two weeks, so it is likely the Covid pandemic has significantly impacted physical processing of returns at the state and at the federal levels.
