Extension rejected. No "fix my file" found, no link on email, and no record of extension request. Answers please

[jpcpor]

instructions please

[VolvoGirl]

Sorry It is now too late to file a extension. Just file your return as soon as possible. 

[Carl]

The ability to file an extension expired on the filing deadline, which was July 15th at midnight. It is no longer possible to file an extension.

[Critter-3 · Accepted solution]

If I e-file a 1040 return or an extension before the deadline, and the IRS rejects it after the deadline, what can I do then?
 

Returns and extensions have to be filed by midnight your local time on the normal due date of the return, in the case of a 1040 return, July 15. The perfection period for 1040 returns and Form 4868 extensions is 5 days, ending on July 20. Pub. 4164, page 18.  Changes were made to the deadline due to COVID-19 relief offered to taxpayers. This deadline includes, "anyone, including Americans who live and work abroad, nonresident aliens and foreign entities with a U.S. filing and payment requirement, have until July 15 to file their 2019 federal income tax return and pay any tax due." - IRS Newsroom.

Note: The perfection period is not an extension. If you do not make a timely filing, there is no perfection period.

You can re-transmit the filing more than once during the perfection period, but any transmission after the perfection period ends is considered to be a late filing.

To paper file a return or extension that was timely e-filed, but rejected:

1. The return or extension must filed by the later of the due date of the return or ten calendar days after the date the IRS gives notification that it rejected the return. (Pub. 1345 page 30)
2. The return or extension should include:
   1. an explanation of why it is being filed after the due date, and
   2. a copy of the electronic rejection notification.
3. A return or 2350 extension must be signed by the taxpayer and preparer. Do not use a PIN. (See the instructions with the form if a taxpayer is not available for signature.)

Summary of deadlines for individual returns and extensions for tax year 2019:

• July 15, 2020 - Last day for transmitting timely filed returns.
• July 20, 2020 – Last day for re-transmitting rejected timely filed Form 1040 family returns.
• June 15, 2020 - Last day for transmitting timely filed Forms 4868 or 2350 to meet overseas exception.
• June 20, 2020 – Last day for re-transmitting rejected timely filed Form 1040 family returns and/or Form 4868 extensions to meet overseas exception and Form 2350.
• October 15, 2020 - Last day for transmitting returns on extension from Form 4868.
• October 20, 2020 – Last day for re-transmitting rejected timely filed Form 1040 family returns on extension from Form 4868.