We do not know where you saw -- or think you saw -- January 9 to e-file.
You cannot e-file yet. E-filing has not opened. The IRS will not begin to accept e-files until the end of January. If TurboTax opens e-filing sooner, all that will happen with your return is that it will go to sit on a server for a few weeks until the IRS opens.
When you rush to file too soon you risk making mistakes that will put your return under review or that will require you to amend later. Those situations can take months to sort out.
And...if you are in a hurry because you are getting child tax credit or earned income credit, the IRS will hold your refund until mid-February because of the PATH act. Every year we see people who rush to file and live to regret their haste. Check the forum a few days after the first filing frenzy to read the posts from people who forgot W-2’s, forgot to enter dependents, forgot to enter Social Security, forgot a 1099 would be coming……and they want to know how to fix their returns—or stop them from going to the IRS.
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