Help!! 2019 Taxes sent with tax preparer but never received by IRS

[Baja Mitch 0]

Hello everyone! Hoping someone can give advice. My husband (us citizen) and I are finally awaiting our appointment. We both live abroad. 
 

He files for his taxes in 2019 by tax preparer but upon checking on IRS website to get transcript, it didn’t pop up. We asked the preparer and she said they sent it but for some reason IRS never got it. 
 

my husband did not make sufficient money 2019 and 2020 half of the year he was and still is unemployed. We got his mom to be a joint sponsor and she makes more than the 125 of poverty guidelines. 
 

what should we do with the taxes?  

he also filed for 2020 online, but couldn’t file as married filing separate because i don’t have ssn nor an ITIN. 
 

can someone pls advise on what to do. Much appreciated. 

[aaron2020 11,651]

He should file his 2019 taxes.

 

He can file his 2020 tax return by mail.  If he wants to file married filing jointly, you can request an ITIN.  

[top_secret 2,535]

If the 2019 taxes were filed as a paper return, IRS is in a state of absolute total meltdown and is still sitting on millions of paper returns for 2019 they have not processed yet.  As of a week ago, 2/17, congressional members of the Ways and Means Committee sent a letter to the IRS in which they said figures supplied to US Congress indicate 11 million individual and business returns from 2019 remain unprocessed.  IRS's official word is they will get to it when they get to it.  So if it was a paper return or a complicated returned (maybe because you live abroad) there is probably little anyone could do to expedite the availability of a transcript.   I guess all you could do is take copies of the actual returns and whatever other proof you have and lay blame for the lack of transcripts on the ongoing debacle at the IRS.

Edited February 24, 2021 by top_secret

[Baja Mitch 0]

47 minutes ago, top_secret said:

If the 2019 taxes were filed as a paper return, IRS is in a state of absolute total meltdown and is still sitting on millions of paper returns for 2019 they have not processed yet.  As of a week ago, 2/17, congressional members of the Ways and Means Committee sent a letter to the IRS in which they said figures supplied to US Congress indicate 11 million individual and business returns from 2019 remain unprocessed.  IRS's official word is they will get to it when they get to it.  So if it was a paper return or a complicated returned (maybe because you live abroad) there is probably little anyone could do to expedite the availability of a transcript.   I guess all you could do is take copies of the actual returns and whatever other proof you have and lay blame for the lack of transcripts on the ongoing debacle at the IRS.

Thank you so much for this. that makes sense now. It doesn’t even appear on the website when he looks it up. You think we can ask for a letter from the tax preparer company to verify it was sent? 

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2 hours ago, Baja Mitch said:

Thank you so much for this. that makes sense now. It doesn’t even appear on the website when he looks it up. You think we can ask for a letter from the tax preparer company to verify it was sent? 

You can but it's not necessary.  Just include a complete copy of the return instead of a tax return transcript.  Consulates are aware of the IRS issue with 2019 transcripts.