@carolynkisler wrote:
There was no reason other than, not eligible to efile, please mail your return to the address listed.
I noticed some other posts in the forum that they had the same problem and they logged out before finalizing and retried and it let them efile. I had already hit finalize and download return so it wouldn't let me efile when I tried again
Aw, shucks. This won't be good news, but it's too bad you didn't ask in the forum at the time of that efile error. We might have been able to help you efile. That's not uncommon early in filing season. A common reason is a form not yet been finalized, or if someone had a zero-income return, or a problem with the state return, that might can be worked around.
"I had already hit finalize and download return so it wouldn't let me efile when I tried again."
I'm not sure what you ran into. Normally one can go back in and change the filing method from mail to efile even after downloading/printing a return. That doesn't lock you into a method. A lot of people change their minds. It's likely we could have told you how to get back into your return interview to change the filing option from mail to efile to keep trying, and helped to figure out the cause. I realize that's frustrating to know now at this point.
Have you actually mailed 2 returns to the IRS?? I found a previous post from you in this forum that sounds like you have sent 2 mailed returns. There's no way to know exactly what's going on, but I would wonder if they are sitting in a mailbag somewhere waiting to be entered into their system. I would guess the IRS gets so much mail that they sign for it several bags at a time rather than sorting through each piece until some time later. But I have no way of knowing what their mail processing routine is. If both mailed returns were indeed lost, however, that would be some odds.
