Why my federal tax not accepted yet. IT SAYS PENDING is it normal ?

[muratarik]

5 DASY AGO I FILED MY FEDERAL STILL PENDING

[DoninGA · Accepted solution]

The IRS will not start accepting any type of federal tax return until January 28, 2019.  Your tax return will remain in a Pending state until the IRS pulls your tax return from the TurboTax servers sometime on or after 01/28/19.  Then you will receive an email from TurboTax if the tax return was either accepted or rejected by the IRS.

[re2boys]

Essentially, you put it into a "mailbox" where you can not retrieve it but the next pickup is late January.