I am hesitant and confused on what to do in the following situation I find myself in with submitting my 2021 Federal and Ohio State Taxes:
I submitted my 2021 Federal and Ohio State Tax paper returns on 2-22-2022, each involving a refund.
I received my 2021 Ohio State Tax Refund on 3-14-2022 (which was amazingly fast)!
However, I kept waiting and waiting and waiting for the 2021 Federal Tax Refund and it still hasn't come.
So, starting in June, I went to the IRS on-line services (a few times) to check my 2021 Federal Tax Refund status, but I always get this response:
"We cannot provide any information about your refund. / If you filed a complete and accurate tax return, your refund should be issued within six weeks of the received date. However, processing may take longer under certain circumstances."
I have also tried calling the IRS (many times) trying to go thru various prompts in different ways to get hold of a person to talk to, but cannot get hold of anyone.
I have seen some online posts of people in the 2020 Tax Year that are still waiting for their refunds. And there is information on the internet that for the 2021 filing season that the IRS has millions of tax returns that haven't been processed yet.
So, I came up with an idea to submit my 2021 Federal Tax return via TurboTax online, but am hesitant to do that not knowing the consequences of that action. I think I will incur the penalty for late filing, and I have seen some other online posts that the IRS may see this as potential fraud, and other posts that it could further delay the refund process if the IRS sees both the paper and online tax returns.
Is there a Turbo Tax Advisor that can help here on what to do in this situation?
Does anyone have some good guidance information on what to do in this situation?
Thank you for listening.
mc124339
