@TKK68 You will receive an email from TurboTax telling you that your return was accepted. All that means is that the IRS has begun processing it.
@Dkyoder and @rawblud
The IRS started this filing season further behind than they have ever been in history. Dealing with the IRS this year is not the same as the IRS of past years.
This is the national taxpayer advocate's report to Congress for this year. It's got a lot of information in it but its biggest takeaways are that the IRS started 2021's filing season with 6 million 2020 returns, 2.3 million amended returns, 5 million quarterly returns and 5 million pieces of correspondence unprocessed. That was how they started the year.
It's just getting more interesting from there.
Returns were unable to be accepted by the IRS until the 24th of January. The IRS has said that this year any return that has no issues can be processed and a refund received within 21 days. If you have any issues with child tax credit not matching what they say they sent you or stimulus payments or really anything at all then processing your return could take as long as six months.
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