On June 21 2022 the IRS posted a news release announcing a new milestone reached regarding the processing of their massive paper return backlog.

What to Expect for Refunds This Year | Internal Revenue Service

18‏/07‏/2022 — If you filed on paper it may take 6 months or more to process your tax return. For service delay details see Status of Operations. The IRS ...

IRS Operations During COVID-19 Mission-critical functions continue

Were open and processing mail tax returns payments refunds and correspondence. However COVID-19 continues to cause delays in some of our services.

IRS again faces backlog bringing refund delays for paper filers

22‏/06‏/2022 — The IRS said 19.13 million paper returns — amended and original returns — awaited processing as of June 10. Thats down slightly from 19.88 ...

Wheres my IRS refund? Paper returns taking months to process - WCVB

26‏/07‏/2022 — Before the pandemic the taxpayer advocate said the IRS typically paid refunds on paper returns in 4 to 6 weeks.

IRS Paper Tax Return Backlog Delays Refund Checks - AARP

05‏/07‏/2022 — Through May 21 the IRS processed 5 million responses to Americans proposed adjustments to their returns taking an average of 251 days to do ...

IRS will finally finish processing last years tax return backlog this week

21‏/06‏/2022 — The IRS began the calendar year with about 8 million unprocessed individual returns left over from 2021. At the time a report from the National ...

Warner & Kaine Push to Clear IRS Backlogs and Resolve Customer ...

16‏/08‏/2022 — “Yet we are writing again to urge the IRS to extend the suspension of ... processing delays and work-down the backlog of paper returns and ...

IRS refund backlog 2022 fight for scanning tech escalates

05‏/08‏/2022 — IRS rejects plan to speed up processing despite massive paper ... technology that would automate the process ideally by the start of the ...

IRS has backlog of 21.3 million paper tax returns watchdog says

22‏/06‏/2022 — More than 21 million paper tax returns are still waiting for processing by the Internal Revenue Service as the tax agency struggles to ...