When users ask us here in the user forum about e-filing this early, we suggest waiting. There are no posts in the user forum with your username Confused in michigan, so we did not have the chance to advise against early e-filing. It seems you e-filed and then started looking into when the IRS would start processing your return. Once you e-file, there is no getting the return back. You have to wait until the return is either accepted or rejected.
Early e-files sit on a server ---waiting --- until the IRS opens and begins to process returns at the end of January. They take a few---- a few ----- e-files as a couple of test batches ahead of the end of January, but that is done very randomly and there is no telling whose returns will be in the test batches. Everyone else---whether they used TurboTax, H & R Block, Jackson Hewitt, TaxSlayer, etc.-----everyone else waits for the IRS to open at the end of January. When you e-file, you get back two emails. The first one says your return has been submitted; the second will tell you if the IRS accepted or rejected your return. If you filed a state return there will be a third email telling you if the state accepted or rejected your return. All you can do now is wait and watch your emails for information. Check your spam folder, too.
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