Why does the IRS show no receipt of my 2021 tax return documents but they cashed the check I mailed with it?
If they cashed the check then they got your return. Why do you need to know? It's taking the IRS a long time to process returns, especially mailed returns. They are still working on 2020.
For 2020 returns, Jan 18, 2022 I copied this from an article online...
The difficulty this season – which officially begins Jan. 24 – stems from a massive pileup of unprocessed returns accrued during the pandemic. In her report, Collins estimated the IRS had a backlog of more than 8.6 million unprocessed individual income tax returns and 2.8 million business returns as of mid-December. It also had close to 5 million pieces of unanswered mail. By comparison, the IRS usually enters the tax-filing season with fewer than 1 million remaining items to address.
There are several reasons for the delays. The IRS was grappling with office closures as well as the Herculean task of delivering millions of stimulus checks in 2020 and 2021, all while trying to adapt to major changes to the tax code in the middle of the filing season. The agency is also grossly understaffed; it has 20,000 fewer staff than it did in 2010, and its budget is roughly $11.4 billion – 20% less than it was in 2010, when adjusted for inflation, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
On top of that, more than 20% of the IRS customer service workforce has been unable to work for pandemic-related health reasons over the last two years.
You mean your 2020 return. Everyone is working on 2021 now.
You have a cancelled check that shows you paid your tax due? What else do you want? The IRS does not send you a receipt. You can check your IRS account online or look to see if they have a transcript for your 2020 return.
You can get a free transcript from the IRS:
https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript
If they cashed the check then they got your return. Why do you need to know? It's taking the IRS a long time to process returns, especially mailed returns. They are still working on 2020.
For 2020 returns, Jan 18, 2022 I copied this from an article online...
The difficulty this season – which officially begins Jan. 24 – stems from a massive pileup of unprocessed returns accrued during the pandemic. In her report, Collins estimated the IRS had a backlog of more than 8.6 million unprocessed individual income tax returns and 2.8 million business returns as of mid-December. It also had close to 5 million pieces of unanswered mail. By comparison, the IRS usually enters the tax-filing season with fewer than 1 million remaining items to address.
There are several reasons for the delays. The IRS was grappling with office closures as well as the Herculean task of delivering millions of stimulus checks in 2020 and 2021, all while trying to adapt to major changes to the tax code in the middle of the filing season. The agency is also grossly understaffed; it has 20,000 fewer staff than it did in 2010, and its budget is roughly $11.4 billion – 20% less than it was in 2010, when adjusted for inflation, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
On top of that, more than 20% of the IRS customer service workforce has been unable to work for pandemic-related health reasons over the last two years.
If you try to efile this year 2021 they may not have your 2020 AGI in the system to verify you. So if your efile rejects then enter 0 for the AGI.
I meant 2020 return. They don't show record of receiving it. The message on my IRS account shows no record of receipt for my 2020 return. It appears as though they didn't get it. It should be logged as received and instead, a message on my account says it has not been filed/received.
BTW, I know they don't send a receipt. I have my cancelled check. I was asking about confirmation that they received my return for 2020. Their website (on my account) shows no receipt of my 2020 return.