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New Member
posted Feb 20, 2024 11:33:37 AM

Colorado efile

I submitted my taxes Feb 1, and they are still pending.  Is this a problem?

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Employee Tax Expert
Feb 20, 2024 11:36:27 AM

No.  It is not a problem.  Colorado has advised taxpayers to give 2 weeks from the 12th before they start checking the status of their refund.  They have a backlog due to so many people filing returns prior to them being prepared to accept the returns.  Colorado State Tax Return Delay 

 

Basically, this means that TurboTax, along with every other Tax software company, put every one's CO return in the "electronic mailbox"  CO was not totally ready and so the "mailbox" is clogged up because they had over a months worth of "mail" in their box waiting for them that came in all at the same time from probably half of the 2.5 million people who file returns in CO through different tax software programs.  So, they keep having to unjam the "electronic mailbox" before they can accept more.  When TurboTax shows it as Pending, it does means, it has been sent to that electronic mailbox and then it is just waiting for the state to "sort through their mail".

New Member
Feb 22, 2024 4:21:42 PM

Thanks so much.  They accepted the returns the next day.