DanielV01
Expert Alumni

After you file

@LaQuanCh01  We can appreciate your frustration.  Truth be told, those identity checks are totally random.  You can get them filing with a paid preparer just as easily as filing with a service such as TurboTax.  It is a program instituted by the IRS to help protect all of us against tax and tax identity fraud.  While a little inconvenient, your refund is actually being protected by this measure that the IRS is taking.  But we can appreciate that any delay is frustrating, and we feel your aggravation.

 

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