The problem I had was the IRS will accept "Direct Pay" for Estimated Tax Payments but any 1040 tax payments had to be channeled through a professional tax consultant or a software-based system (such as TurboTax). When I did my taxes with TurboTax, I selected the "Direct Pay" option and TurboTax collected the necessary information for the IRS Direct Pay system. The next day, i did not see my Federal Tax payment on the IRS Direct Pay web site and I wrote the above question searching out confirmation. Well, later in the day, I went back to the IRS Direct Pay web site and my 1040 Federal Tax Payment was there along with a confirmation number. So, the problem was that TurboTax took (more or less) 24 hours to pass the information to the IRS system. I scheduled my 2024 Tax Year estimates on the IRS Direct Pay system, but my 1040 Federal Tax payments went through TurboTax. Intuit/TurboTax claims that they did not receive a confirmation from the IRS when they forwarded the information. Theredfore,they could nnot pass it along to me.
