Ref: IRS Newsroom Nov 19, 2021

According to a recent IRS news release, there are still significant return processing backlogs from the last filing season. For example:

-6.5 million individual returns

-2.6 million individual amended returns

-3 million payroll Form 941 returns

-412,000 amended payroll Form 941 returns

Additional delays:

-Clogged and unusable IRS phone lines

-Millions of backed up mail answers from taxpayers

At this point, there is no way that they can catch up by the start of the 2021 filing season, so the delays will “merge” into an even larger mess.