Still Awaiting Your Federal Tax Refund? You're Not Alone

The IRS has a backlog of millions of unprocessed tax returns.

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If one of them is yours and you're owed a tax refund, you want to know when the IRS will send you your money.

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the tax agency has been lacking in this area, especially over the past couple of years. It's not all the IRS's fault.

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Credit the perfect storm of the COVID-19 pandemic, lots of stimulus-related tax law changes passed by Congress for the IRS

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The good news is that the IRS has made progress on its processing of returns

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because it went on a hiring spree and shifted current personnel from other areas to assist with the backlog.

Agency statistics from 2021 and 2022 demonstrate the forward movement made by the IRS.

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