Be prepared to see delays in your refunds this year. According to the article (at the end of this post), IRS is seriously behind right now, and the 2021 tax season hasn’t even begun yet.
“A breakdown of the agency’s backlogs as of late last month found the IRS had 6 million unprocessed original individual returns, 2.3 million unprocessed amended individual returns, over 2 million unprocessed employer’s quarterly tax returns, and nearly 5 million pieces of taxpayer correspondence.”