@Critter-3 @SweetieJean - the IRS is beginning to make "some" progress, but there is a long way to go. See the items in bold below. Let's say 100.000 paper filed returns arrive each week and the inventory is reduced by 350,000 per week, that means the IRS is processing 450,000 per week. 8.4mm / .45mm is 19 weeks, which means a paper return that is filed TODAY would be processed in mid-December, if the IRS can maintain the pace of the past two weeks. That would mean instead of a 6-9 month wait for paper filed returns, it would be down to about a 4 month wait..... stay tuned!!
As of June 17, 2022, we had 11.2 million unprocessed individual returns which include returns received before 2022, and new tax year 2021 returns. Of these, 2 million returns require error correction or other special handling, and 9.2 million are paper returns waiting to be reviewed and processed.
As of June 24, 2022, we had 11.2 million unprocessed individual returns which include returns received before 2022, and new tax year 2021 returns. Of these, 1.9 million returns require error correction or other special handling, and 9.3 million are paper returns waiting to be reviewed and processed
As of July 15, 2022, we had 11 million unprocessed individual tax year 2021 returns. Of these, 1.9 million returns require error correction or other special handling, and 9.1 million are paper returns waiting to be reviewed and processed.
As of July 22, 2022, we had 10.5 million unprocessed individual tax year 2021 returns. Of these, 1.7 million returns require error correction or other special handling, and 8.8 million are paper returns waiting to be reviewed and processed.
As of July 29, 2022, we had 10.2 million unprocessed individual tax year 2021 returns. Of these, 1.8 million returns require error correction or other special handling, and 8.4 million are paper returns waiting to be reviewed and processed.
