Tax Return not accepted

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@Maurice-Anita wrote:

I only need to remove the two dependents from this year's tax return and refile my taxes can someone help me do that?

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If you have filed your 2021 tax return and it has been accepted by the IRS you cannot change the filed tax return.  You will have to file an amended tax return to change the 2021 return that was filed.

An amended return, Form 1040-X, can only be printed and mailed to the IRS if the original tax return was not e-filed. The IRS will take up to 16 weeks or longer to process an amended tax return.

Before starting to amend the tax return, wait for the tax refund to be received or the taxes due to be paid and processed by the IRS.

The federal amended tax return, Form 1040-X, for tax year 2021 is estimated to be available in TurboTax on 03/17/2022

@TnM   What is happening?  Did you file yet?

Did you go all the way through the File tab, through the 3 steps and hit the big orange Transmit Returns Now button?

You can check your efile status here,
https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/efile-status-lookup

When you efile you get back 2 emails. The first email only confirms the transmission. The second email says if the IRS (or state) Accepted or Rejected your efile.

When you log into your account you should also see the status and if it was Accepted or Rejected, Started, Printed, Ready to Mail, etc. What does it say?

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@djack31219 wrote:

last year in 2025 season for 2024 I have always got an acceptance within hours and now file 2025 in 1-26-2016 i got a  pending still on 1-28-2026 i do not  what going on.

 

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The IRS officially opened this season on 1/26/2026, so you apparently efiled on opening day.   Before that date, people who efiled early had their returns just sitting on TurboTax servers waiting for the IRS to open.  A few returns were pulled early for testing purposes.    This was also true at other tax preparation companies, etc., so there is always a big backlog of returns when the IRS first opens every year.    The IRS cannot pull all of the backlogged returns at once.   So during this first week of IRS operations it's possible to take longer than 48 hours to hear something back about whether the return was accepted or rejected.     As long as you see it is "pending", then you know it was transmitted.   You should have also gotten an email saying it was submitted.    Hopefully, you will get an efile result before too long.