How long ago did you submit it? I don’t do my Fed’l taxes online. I always do the paper form. I have nothing to claim, take the standard deduction too, single, no dependents. Two years ago, it took six months for me to get my lousy refund. It wasn’t held up for review. It just took them that long to get to it. Last year I got my return within a reasonable amount of time. It’s been six weeks since I mailed 2023’s forms in. I’ve checked “Where’s my refund?” but it continually says I must have made an error when submitting the info to the site. That likely means they just haven’t processed it yet.
Create an ID.me account and you can get access to all your tax transcripts including I found out via irs tax advocate who advised me to do this. It will give you codes of what is happening. I am waiting for a CP05 LETTER. I haven’t rec’d yet but she read it to me over the phone. .Just says being reviewed and I don’t have to do anything right now.
See post #25 by tired&retired. Personnel shortages at the IRS.
I submitted on 1/27 through TurboTax. I’ve never had an issue before. The letter seems pretty generic. It states they may looking at four different things in my return and only one of the four applied to me - income. The rest don’t even apply.