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Level 2
Jan 19, 2024 9:42 PM UTC
Question

Refund Advance

Filed taxes and federal return has been accepted. Applied for the refund advance but haven’t received a denial or accepted email. What’s going on?

5 replies

DoninGA
Level 15
Level 15
Jan 19, 2024 10:15 PM UTC

You have to wait for the IRS to start processing 2023 tax returns on January 29, 2024 before the tax return can be either Accepted or Rejected.

Level 2
Jan 19, 2024 10:18 PM UTC

Then why did my account update to accepted?

DoninGA
Level 15
Level 15
Jan 19, 2024 10:24 PM UTC

Every tax year the IRS pulls a small batches of tax returns to test out their systems.  Your return was probably in one of those batches.