At the start of the year, the IRS had 7 million returns from the 2019 season to process. Why? Because the IRS was essentially shut down for a good portion of 2020 when they would have processed these returns.
They're apparently down the final 300K. They expect this to take 2 months more.
THEN, they will get to 2020 returns that are flagged for manual review (6-7 million of them). I would expect this to take another 4-5 months (realistically).
https://www.wpxi.com/news/trending/irs-head-6-million-tax-returns-are-suspension-thousands-2019-retu...
If your tax return has that "Your return is still being processed" message - it means your return was flagged for manual review (this is NOT an audit). Realistically there's nothing you can do at all. The IRS will pay you 3% - and that's fine if you were going to save the money anyway, but if you're in credit card debt, you might be paying 20% interest on that money. So kind of a **bleep**ty situation for millions of Americans.
