So after a tortuous year (do NOT get me started on Washington County, PA incompetent registry of wills or the fact the only people who don’t pay inheritance tax in the state are well off people with trusts) I finally closed my mom’s estate. I sent in two years of her federal tax return. I got 2021’s refund, but not 2020, even though I sent the returns in the same envelope. I don’t get penalized since she owed nothing. I am assuming it’s just taking longer for them to process the older one? It’s hard to use the usually means of tracking refunds because she is deceased. The delay makes sense, right? I really don’t want to have to try to call them. The refund is around $1000, but it’s not holding up closing the estate account because it’s going to take Pennsylvania state at least 6 more months to process the estate tax papers. (Did I mention how much I hate my home state now?) So there is no rush on any of this.