@poosterypoo wrote:
That wasn’t helpful because it was far from my subject. My question was:
My federal E-file was accepted 2/21. But my CALIFORNIA E-file is still PENDING, NOT EVEN ACCEPTED yet after 3 weeks. I know California has been open & receiving long before I transmitted. This worries me.
Assuming you made a typo. since it is not yet 02/21, the IRS did not start processing any federal tax returns until February 12, 2021. A state return cannot be even processed until the federal tax return is accepted by the IRS so if you e-filed the federal and state return 3 weeks ago, they both just sat on the TurboTax servers.
The IRS and States pull tax returns from the servers, TurboTax does not send the tax returns to the IRS or to a State.
If your federal return has been accepted by the IRS then your state return is waiting for the state of California to pull the return. The state has their own procedures and processes for pulling tax returns.
