@Sherryczerniawski wrote:
I filed my tax return the beginning of April. I would like to know the status being I had to mail it in . This is the first time I used turbo tax and I don’t like that you hear nothing back from them about the status of your return .
Hopefully, you printed, signed, dated, and physically mailed the return yourself. TurboTax does not mail it for you.
If you didn't send it by a method that has tracking, then you won't know for a while. And even if you did send it with tracking, receipt might not be acknowledged with their procedures shut down.
You probably mailed it about the time they fully shut down processing of paper returns. But you can "try" the IRS "Where's My Refund" tool, just in case it does show up there. It normally takes 4 weeks to show up in that tool, even without the Coronavirus situation. If it doesn't show up in their tool, then it doesn't necessarily mean anything--you will still not know if it has been received or not, or whether it's sitting in a bin or trailer waiting to be processed once they reopen.
https://www.irs.gov/refunds
With that tool use the correct SSN and filing status, and use the Federal refund amount shown on your Form 1040, Line 21a. Do not use any total refund amount that TurboTax provides that is a sum of the Federal and state refunds.
At some point the IRS live assistance call centers will open up again. But even when processing resumes there will be a backlog, so they may or may not be able to tell you for a while even after they reopen. Even in normal times (prior to the Coronavirus) it took 4 weeks after receiving a mailed paper return for it to even show up in the IRS "Where's My Refund" tool, so all bets are off now. No one knows yet what it's going to be like when they resume processing. The IRS website said in an April news release on their website:
- The IRS is not currently able to process individual paper tax returns. If you already have filed via paper but it has not yet been processed, do not file a second tax return or write to the IRS to inquire about the status of your return or your economic impact payment. Paper returns will be processed once processing centers are able to reopen.
