You will hold mine til Jan 29, 2018 not send to IRS, they arent accepting. Friend filed thru TaxAct, IRS accptd, status on IRS Where Is my Refund. How come you can't ?

[gentryrk]

My friends is already accepted thru TaxAct, and IRS has status on Where is my Refund, why can't you send to IRS yet?

[Critter · Accepted solution]

OK ... here is the scoop ... NOT one tax company sends anything to the IRS.  Once you submit your return it is put into a holding "pool" on a server that the IRS has complete control over them.     When the IRS chooses to "drain" the pooled returns they do at their own discretion ... last week they pulled a few returns from each pool to test their system.  These test returns may have been accepted for PROCESSING  however the actual processing of the returns will not start before the 29th  and if the return has EIC or ACTC on it those will not start processing until 2/15.  And due to the government shut down the time table could be pushed back even further. 

The only status you can have on WMR? is that is was accepted for processing and nothing more.  Filing early will not get the return processed any sooner.