The IRS also said on February 14 that some of its Child Tax Credit letters - letter 6419 - included incorrect information about the amount some taxpayers received. Some taxpayers may also inadvertently claim the wrong amount on their tax returns this year - and through no fault of their own. The IRS on February 14 said tax returns with errors involving the third stimulus check, which are missing information or which have suspected fraud or theft could take up to 90 to 120 days to resolve. The tool will provide information about three phases of processing: Alerting the taxpayer when their return is received, when their refund is approved and when the refund is sent. The IRS says people can start checking the status of their refund within 24 hours after an electronically filed return is received by the agency, or four weeks after a taxpayer mails a paper return. And some taxpayers are already reporting receiving their refunds, according to posts on social media. That may make taxpayers nervous about delays in 2022, but most Americans should get their refunds within 21 days of filing, according to the IRS. IRS is in crisis, Taxpayer Advocate warns.As of December 31, the agency had 6 million unprocessed individual returns - a significant reduction from a backlog of 30 million in May, but far higher than the 1 million unprocessed returns that is more typical around the start of tax season. That's largely due to the IRS' sizable backlog of returns from 2021. Treasury Department officials warned in January that this year's tax season will be a challenge with the IRS starting to process returns on January 24. But with this tax season now in progress, taxpayers could see a repeat of last year's snarls in processing, when more than 30 million taxpayers had their returns - and refunds - held up by the IRS. Three in four Americans receive an annual tax refund from the IRS, which often is a family's biggest check of the year.
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