Treasury warns of 'enormous challenges' this tax-filing season that could delay refunds

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3. We're still waiting for our tax return from 2020 to be processed (and we're expecting a refund)...

And the IRS states to not refile a return (we thought perhaps the return was lost in the mails), so we're in limbo land.

Good grief, how long will this mess go on until it's finally resolved? How does one do their return for 2021, the anticipated refund has not been refunded yet, and so you can't declare the 2020 refund as income for the 2021 return, and then ironies of ironies, you'll have to, in doing the 2021 returns do the same thing, have an anticipated refund of the 2021 return (anticipating that we've overpaid this year's return too.

Thus, we will have two years' worth of completed returns in the IRS' hands, that we won't see a dime yet (until they send the refunds). This is, by the way, equal to one year's worth of tax payments. Kind of a big amount to us.

I wonder if I should contact my Congress persons and see what they can do?