January 2022
- This tax season, the IRS is behind by approximately 11.7 million returns from the previous tax year. The IRS closed the 2021 filing season with approximately 9.8 million individual returns that required manual processing.
- Low-income families have been hit the hardest by delays and getting answers from the IRS has been near impossible. In 2021, the IRS answered about 11% of all calls, with wait times averaging 23 minutes. Some taxpayers who timely responded to IRS math error notices have been subject to automatic “premature” collection notices. Delayed or missing refunds are causing many others to experience “severe financial hardship.”
- As of December 31, 2021, the IRS’s backlog of unprocessed individual returns totaled 6 million, according to an IRS post updated last week. Unprocessed amended individual returns totaled 2.3 million as of January 8,2022. Additionally, there are approximately 1.1 million of unprocessed Forms 941, Employer’s Quarterly Federal Tax Return.
February 2022