Update: after talking with a TurboTax support person, it appears this is probably what happened:
- Maine wasn't actually done with their system issues on October 10 when I filed. Probably needed a few more days. So, they didn't actually process my return until yesterday (or so).
- To pay your balance electronically to the state, you have to submit a date you want the money withdrawn from your bank account. This date should (???) match the "Today's Date" entry on the state tax forms.
- Because of their system updates, they ended up adjusting my submitted date (or fudging some other dates somehow) which meant the withdrawal date was now out of sync with "Today's Date."
- Voila! They rejected the whole thing.
We can't be sure that is what happened, but it sounds bureaucratically plausible.
There is nothing to correct but the dates, so I have submitted the taxes electronically again with new dates and we'll see what happens.
