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Taxpayer Advocate Report Focuses on Tax Season, Covid-19, CARES Act
Taxpayers who filed a 2019 paper return and are entitled to refunds may be in for a long wait. The IRS had to suspend the processing of paper tax returns, and as of May 16, it estimated it had a backlog of 4.7 million paper returns.