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Perhaps an unknown power has placed a hex on this return.

"As of Jan. 28, the tally of outstanding individual and business returns requiring what the IRS calls “manual processing” — an operation where an employee must take at least one action rather than relying on an automated system to move the case — came to 23.7 million, the taxpayer advocate data shows. The number includes 9.7 million paper returns awaiting processing; 4.1 million that were suspended because of errors with stimulus payments, pandemic relief or other issues; 4.1 million amended returns; and 5.8 million pieces of correspondence awaiting action between the agency and taxpayers to resolve issues before the returns are completed." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/11/irs-returns-backlog/ This is really bad! It's like a slow moving trainwreck headed downhill!

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I just want to add that all this EIC for retired people not of RMD age who are working simply for a little structure/something to do (3 of them work in my office!) ... receiving SS but living on savings to take advantage of these years of little/no tax on SS, is making me super anxious. Some of these clients have well over a million dollars in retirement plus some after tax assets. Just doesn't seem right. I keep waiting for the other shoe to fall. The return I just did resulted in an EIC of over $1,000 for a retired professor who is not yet RMD age. I triple check them every time thinking I'm doing something wrong.

I was just getting ready to post this same article!

I was not a child bride, I am just OLD. However, we have kept each other sane and are both still working. Not because we have to, but because we want to. Where Covid has broken many families, it has brought us closer together because we only had each other and our kitty baby. We have a beautiful family; small but close and we count our blessings every day!!!

ATX estimated release date 2/28/22. Sheesh!

Yeah, my youngest daughter and her husband are divorcing. They just slowly drifted apart and stopped talking to each other. Unfortunately, my two grand kids age 2 & 4 have no idea about what's going on.