I woke up this AM and received a message that my Oregon return had been accepted. This is what I have concluded:
1. Yesterday, Feb 17, I got a message when first opening up TurboTax that it was "Up to Date". I was confused because of my understanding that a software fix was needed, but I plowed ahead anyway (Banzai WTH) to correct the "Oregon Federal Tax Liability Hold". I finally got a message that stated, "Errors fixed and ready to file". I was shocked because the previous message "Up to Date" would imply that I had not needed to download the software fix. Apparently the fix happened in the background on the TurboTax servers, but the messaging somehow had not caught up with the fix.
2. Today, Feb 18, I opened up TurboTax just to see what would happen, and I was informed that a download was needed, so I did it anyway. Apparently the correct messaging has "caught up" with the software fix.
3. I am not a high tech expert, but my layman's intuition tells me that a lot of technical "reconciliation" has to happen on the servers so that the messages become consistent with the true status of everyone's install of TurboTax. From what I can tell today, all should be good for everyone else.
I posted on Facebook yesterday to caution my Oregon friends to wait a couple of days before they e-filed their returns. I believe that time was needed for everything to get sorted out on the servers since my call to OR Dept of Revenue (DOR) revealed that Intuit informed OR DOR yesterday that the software fix had been installed.
Good luck, everyone!
