After you file

@heybrian1 - thank your Congressman for passing tax laws that provided benefits during the pandemic, but not funding money for the IRS to process all the additional complexity that those laws brought. 

 

if you don't file and owe money, that is a bad choice as the IRS will eventually find you.  there is no statute of limitations when you owe tax. 

if you don't file and are owed a refund, then on some level, the IRS doesn't care as that is momey that the federal government gets to keep.  You only have three years to claim your refund otherwise it is forfeited.  

 

state laws may be different