A 2019 original return filed in January 2026 has a $1.00 AGI, wasn’t the AGI on the return. It also has return processing date and received date as 2020. It has a code 150 with a 2020 batch code with 0.00. That is all the transcript shows and the module and data populated to transcript two weeks ago. On the return itself a balance is due.
According to the IRS the return is in the statue department.
What does this mean?

I was wondering if anyone has had to do that and could help me remember the steps they give to verify myself so they can release my tax refund.

It said they wanted to make sure it was me that submitted my taxes I think because I wanted to direct deposit my refund in my girlfriends account since I was locked out of mine after changing phone numbers recently. It said to do the verify me I.D page on the site and I remember they had extra steps they wanted me to do but I forgot so o just tried creating an account and submitting my I.D. But I can never get past that step before getting to finish it by talking to a I.D me agent instead it always says sorry we can’t verify you and that’s it and takes me to the main menu.

I’m wondering if I’m supposed to do the steps in a different order has anyone gotten that letter in the mail and at the bottom it says follow these steps to release your refund if this is not you do nothing and we will assume it was not you but someone trying to steal your identity and block it. I definitely don’t want that to happen.

Thank you for any help!

Hello, I am very worried and any advice would be greatly appreciated. I am an international research scholar from the UK here on a J-1 visa. I started a position here in April 2025, and my taxes were filed in March by the University I'm working at for the 2025 year. As in, because I am international and have little knowledge of tax laws, they have a dedicated group of volunteers who come in and help all the internationals file their taxes each year. We just go along for an hour or two and give all our information and they work through it.

I've just received a letter (actually, it was sent on Oct 1st and I only just checked our joint mailbox - it's hard to open at our apartment complex) from the IRS saying that I have submitted a frivolous tax return. I have 30 days from then (so less than a week now) so submit a corrected tax return. I obviously didn't intend to do anything wrong.

One thing that I believe may have caused this was that I was told during my tax-filing appointment that because I am an international, the UK (where I'm from) and the USA have an agreement whereby anyone here for less than 2 years is exempt from paying taxes. I'm guessing it's just not worth their while to process it all for someone only here temporarily? Anyway, my position is actually likely to extend beyond 2 years, but I was given the option to either pay the tax each year, and if I'm here <2 years, I guess they will pay it back to me when I leave. OR, I can not pay any tax now, and if I stay beyond the 2 years, I must pay it ALL back in a lumpsum during my third year. I chose the latter: to not pay any tax now, and thought I will pay it later, if I stay beyond 2 years. Now I'm concerned this is the cause of me receiving this letter.

ANY advice would be VERY appreciated! Thank you.

I had to call TAS and file 911 form. Then I contacted my local congressman office.

Took TAS and local gov 28 days to finally tell me that u have an agent assigned to my case and look into my refund. My contact date is 10/29. Idk what to expect but no changes in code I just hope this doesnt cause further delays.

Any tips or suggestions for my “contact date” lol thanks all. Hope we all get our refund soon

So I amended my 2022 return March of 2024. Was told I would have my refund by November. Kept getting told to wait 60-90 days. Got a tax advocate and same thing. Reached out to congressman’s office in May of 2025 they have been working with me since then. I have been told this refund was going to be released atleast 3x had the 290 code with 0s 2 or 3 seperate times. It’s been reviewed by so many different departments. I read on here about a week ago that a refund was stuck in a loop and basically the same thing happening it was set to be released and something happened on the back end. I cannot find that post anymore and was hoping someone could help either find the post or if the person who posted post again so I can screen shot it and send to my congressman’s office. It’s been almost 18 months with the congressman’s office and I don’t know where to go from here.

I am losing my mind trying to deal with the IRS online account portal right now and I am really hoping someone here has run into this or knows how to fix it.

I am trying to pull my records for 2022, specifically looking for my 2022 account transcript and my 2022 verification of non-filing letter. But every other day for the past months, the page just completely blocks me. Under the account transcripts section, it permanently gives me an error saying they were unable to load my 2022 transcript. And when I try to open the 2022 verification of non-filing letter, it doesn't even download a PDF. Instead, my browser intercepts it and throws up a raw XML text tree error page saying the file doesn't have any style information.

I have tried everything I can think of like clearing my cache, changing browsers, opening private windows, and even trying to force rename downloaded files, but nothing works. It seriously feels like the 2022 digital data record is completely broken or missing on their back end.

If anyone has experienced this specific XML error loop or persistent loading error for an older year on the IRS portal, did it ever fix itself, or is that file just dead in their system? If the online portal is completely bugged out like this, what is the fastest way to get a physical or digital copy of a 2022 non-filing letter without waiting months? Is it possible the IRS system just genuinely does not have a clean record of it, which is why it keeps erroring out, or is their web infrastructure just this terrible?