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IRS Announces E-File Open Day! Be the First In Line for Your Tax Refund

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Today the IRS announced Monday, January 29, 2024 as the beginning of the nation’s 2023 tax season when the agency will begin accepting and processing 2023 tax year returns. Don’t wait to file. File today with TurboTax, and be first in line for your tax refund! Although the IRS has not yet begun accepting e-filed tax returns, TurboTax securely holds your completed taxes, transmits them to the IRS, and state when they open for e-file.

Whether you want to do your taxes yourself, get help along the way, or just fully hand over your taxes to a tax expert, TurboTax is ready to help you get your biggest refund.

Last year, the average tax refund was more than $3,000. We know that your tax refund can make a big difference in your financial life, whether you need to pay down debt or save for something special. 

Combined with e-file, direct deposit is the fastest way to get your tax refund. Overall, the IRS anticipates nine out of 10 taxpayers will receive their refund within 21 days or less when they file electronically with direct deposit if there are no issues with their tax return. 

The IRS encourages all taxpayers to file as soon as possible and reminds you to keep copies of your prior-year tax returns for at least three years. The filing deadline to submit 2023 tax returns is April 15, 2024. Individuals who live in Maine and Massachusetts have until April 17, 2024, because April 15 is Patriots Day and April 16 is emancipation day. C-Corps filing deadline is April 15, 2024 and partnerships and S-Corps filing deadlines are March 15, 2024.

Get your tax refund up to 5 days early* with TurboTax + Credit Karma MoneyTM

You could get your tax refund up to 5 days earlier when you have it deposited onto awith Credit Karma Money™ checking or savings account**. Free to open and with no minimum balance fees, enjoy perks like automatic cashback***, Early Payday, and more. Select Credit Karma Money as your deposit option when you’re ready to finish and file inside TurboTax.  

Check back with the TurboTax Blog this tax season to get the latest news for all things taxes and saving money!

*Get your tax refund up to 5 days early: When it’s time to file, have your tax refund direct deposited with Credit Karma Money™, and you could receive your funds up to 5 days early. If you choose to pay your tax preparation fee with TurboTax using your federal tax refund or if you choose to take the Refund Advance loan, you will not be eligible to receive your refund up to 5 days early. 5-day early program may change or discontinue at any time. Up to 5 days early access to your federal tax refund is compared to standard tax refund electronic deposit and is dependent on and subject to IRS submitting refund information to the bank before release date. IRS may not submit refund information early.  

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464 responses to “IRS Announces E-File Open Day! Be the First In Line for Your Tax Refund”

  1. I filed 2/1 and it has been on pending status ever since! I’ve never had to wait this long! 8 days pending is a long time and I usually get my State refund within 3 days.. I wish I had some answers.

  2. If my mail by date is by feb 12,2014 when can I expect a check ? I heard irs only mails checks on Friday so would it have been mailed feb 7,2014?

  3. I got the following message when I tried to e-file my tax returns with TurboTax but have not been able to get an explanation from the list of questions offered or the 2 live chat operators, who seemed to not know anything about the program: “You have a tax situation in your federal return(s) that requires you to file that return by mail. Click Continue to file and we’ll help you with the filing process or visit the Review section for more details.”

    Does anyone know what this could mean?

    I am also wondering why I am not given the option to have the cost of the TurboTax program taken out of my tax refund, like I have in previous years.

  4. I filed my taxes with turbotax on the 31st it is now the 7th and website still has my return under pending . Why is it taking so long for it to be accepted ? Is it going to be rejcted or why is it taking so long for anything to happen?

  5. My return was accepted on 1-24-13 and is still in process. I have already received my state on 2/04/14. Why is it taking so long for fed? Last year, I received my refund for fed on 2/05/13. This is just ridculous. Does anyone know if they do deposits in the afternoon or just mornings?

  6. Anybody got a due date for Monday February 10th 2014? Submitted taxes on January 29th, received January 30th and accepted February 6th and ddd February 10th.

  7. How is it that the IRS did not start processing the income tax refund until January 31 but on January 28 turbo tax sent me an email saying that my e-file was accepted on that date?

  8. I filed mine 1/31 and mine was rejected resent mine Feb 1 and got a accepted date Feb 2 and I got my Direct Deposit Feb 6th at 3am. WMR never showed a deposit utnil 4am this morning and it said the 10th. This is the fastest I have gotten my money back.

    • I filed Feb 1 got rejected refiled and now as of the 10th is says received being processed. So does that mean it should be fine now

      • That’s the reason why I wait until the day the IRS opened because it had happened to me , if I do it before the opening date for some reason it takes more time

  9. I am confused, I typed an EIN incorrectly and my file was rejected at the federal and state level. I fixed it through turbo tax. It said because of the error I would need to mail in the return, but then on the next screen, the system said my e-file went through and was pending approval from the government. So do I need to mail the returns in or not?

  10. IND-689-01 – The year of the ‘PrimarySignatureDt’ in the Return Header must be equal to the processing year

    whats this mean?

    • I had this happen too. It means you typed in the wrong year when you provided your e-signature (the section where you type in a PIN and your AGI from last year). I put 2013 instead of 2014 by mistake. All you need to do is go back and change the date to whatever the date is that you file and be sure to put 2014 as the year.

  11. i filled thru turbo tax, my husband and i got married at the begining of last year and he hasnt filed taxes in over 6 years, we tried to do the e filing but it rejected us. I have tried to get ahold of turbo tax many times to resolve this and no answer ever, i have put my name on the call back list and never get called back. Can i remove my filling from turbo tax and go somewhere else even though i already paid.

    • If he hasn’t filed in 6 years, you won’t be able to file online for him. You will need to submit each of the years hard copy including this year. Once they have been processed, you should be able to file online the following year.

  12. I keep receiving a “come back in late January to file” message and it is Feb 5. Will this ever work!? Kind of disappointing considering how easy this app worked last year.

  13. I filed the 27th of January and got notice my taxes were accepted early but will not begin processing till the 31st. I’m still waiting for my return.

  14. Was checking to see if and when the irs have or expect my return I haven’t gotten a reply. My brother in law and I done ours at the same time and his has already been excepted and is suposse to receive his on the 7th my says pendi

  15. I filed my return on 01/31 now the status says pending and the details say changed to in_agency It has passed the 48 hour time frame given on your site when can I expect them to move past the pending stage.

  16. Hi I filed with turbo tax on 01/11 and was sent a message and email on 01/24 that it was accepted. i also checked on the irs.gov site and it was showing in process. When will i receive a refund. Everyone that filed after me that i reccommended turbo tax have a date for direct deposit. I do not have one.

      • Hi lisa. I understand everyone is different but at the sametime I had no problem over the years filing early but of course I didn’t use turbo tax none of those times either. I don’t understand y this year would be different except the fact that I used turbo.

      • Lisa, I filed my taxes early in Jan because TT said they were ready. Now my taxes were flagged for early submittal and has to be reviewed for identify theft. You should warn customers not to file early! This is extremely misleading first in first out. The IRS said do not file early again!!
        TT just wanted to lock in my business. Now I have to wait another 6-8 weeks! Thanks a lot!!!

  17. My tax return has been in the pending status far longer than it should. My state was rejected because it said my federal was rejected, however I’ve not hearid any reply from my federal return.

  18. My return was accepted by the irs on January 31st and then today Feb 2 i go to check my return and it now says it’s locked will that delay my return

    • U cant change did u owe money before childsupport,garnishments,are did u owe the irs, u will not be able to change it until irs audit it lastly it does that if something fraudulent on your taxes

  19. I filed with you all on 1-31 and received a rejection 5 time for wrong SSN the ss has not changed, you all did that last year. I have resubmited it again and again, what it the problem??

      • yes you can I have mines deposited to my moms one year my bro’s another and the last couple of years to my girls and we aren’t married and me and my mom don’t have the same last name nor does my brother. You can do it to bank account just not those pre-paid debit cards those have to be in your name to get your tax return other than that any actual bank account can be used

  20. I forgot to put a dash and a number for my refund to go into my checkings account. I contacted my bank and asked if my money will still deposited and they said it wont go into my checkings it would go into my savings account. But I marked checkings account on my taxes. Will it be rejected? Or will my refund still go through to my savings account even though I put checkings.. my account number and routing number were correct, just missed a number for the checkings so it goes to my savings….

  21. My state got approved right away but the federal haven’t been accepted. I filed on Jan 31 is there a problem or is the IRS just behind?

  22. Well I’m a single mother on just one wonderful little boy . And getting my taxes back ASAP and I kept putting in the wrong aig number from last year because my mother replaced my last years papers but she was doing a spring clean. But my son and I really need this money for things he really needs . So I want to let everyone know how blessed me and my son is and thankful that someone told me about this. God is Good All The Time AMEN!!!

  23. my state was rejected because there was an error on my federal… but my federal hasn’t shown up rejected yet. how do i fix this and will this delay my return????

  24. The app still will not let me file. Says for me to come back in late January. If it doesn’t let me file by tomorrow, I will use another app that will allow me to file.

    • Hi,
      Sorry you are still having problems. I will check into the message you are seeing.
      Thank you,
      Lisa Greene-Lewis

  25. My state taxes say rejected because my federal taxes was rejected but on your site it still says that my federal is pending. What am I to do because I don’t know what is wrong.

  26. I received a notice last night that my efile was rejected and there’s something wrong with the fix it button. When logging into my turbo tax to fix problem the status of still pending is it pending or rejected? I checked Where’s my refund still not showing anything. Please help?

    • Hi Marshall,
      Returns get rejected by IRS for different reasons – and because the IRS opened yesterday, lots of customers are getting notices to make updates to their returns and resubmit. If you don’t yet see the option to fix your reject in your account, please wait two hours and check back. We’re working to sync up our systems and it takes a bit of time for all the information to populate and sync up. We appreciate your patience!
      Thank you,
      Lisa Greene-Lewis

  27. My taxes were rejected. I got an email from turbo tax but it’s taking me to the sign in homepage and it’s not telling me how to file them again. I NEED HELP!!

    • Hi Adam,
      Returns get rejected by IRS for different reasons – and because the IRS opened yesterday, lots of customers are getting notices to make updates to their returns and resubmit. If you don’t yet see the option to fix your reject in your account, please wait two hours and check back. We’re working to sync up our systems and it takes a bit of time for all the information to populate and sync up. We appreciate your patience!
      Thank you,
      Lisa Greene-Lewis

  28. Hi, I got an email saying that states were rejected and when I go to fix it, T.T say’s it’s still pending. Was it rejected? Do I have to wait a bit to fix it? If it was rejected, how do I change/fix the problem. Every time I click to amend, it say’s pending.

    • Hi Brittany,
      You should see a fix it button. Do not click on amend. If you don’t see the fix it button check back in two hours and see if the fix it button is there.
      Thank you,
      Lisa Greene-Lewis

      • TT you respond over and over again to the same question…a refund. I several questions about the State not going thru..the Federal went right thru no problem. The state says nothing but wont go thru…how about answering this question

  29. My State Return was rejected. I’ve tried repeatedly to log on and fix it, but your site keeps freezing up when I click on the button to do so…

    • Hi Craig
      Returns get rejected by IRS for different reasons – and because the IRS opened yesterday, lots of customers are getting notices to make updates to their returns and resubmit. If you don’t yet see the option to fix your reject in your account, please wait two hours and check back. We’re working to sync up our systems and it takes a bit of time for all the information to populate and sync up. We appreciate your patience!
      Thank you,
      Lisa Greene-Lewis

  30. hello, I filed my taxes on the 31st and I haven’t heard if it was rejected or accepted. I had a friend who filed them today and she already heard they were accepted. When am I supposed to wait for mine and why hers were review first than mine?
    Thank you for your help.

  31. I’ve been accepted since 1/26/2014. How long does it take to be processed? It’s my first year filing so I really don’t know what to expect.

  32. I filed a return on 1/26/2014 and when i returned to turbo tax it what not found…I went through the entire process including pins etc…I have been using TT for the past 6 years. Any suggestions

  33. HI HAVE A QUESTION , MY STATUS TIME STATES I SHALL KNOW IF IM ACCEPTED BY 2/2/2014, how can my tax info. Be accepted on the 2/2/14 its a Sunday but when check the e file status i SHALL KNOW by 2/2/14 is that so? Will get a email from turbo on a Sunday?

  34. this is the 1st time ive used turbo tax..an so far i dont like it…last year i went some where an had them done….ive been rejected 4 times now..i keep fixxing what they say to fix .ive called all the numbers its told me to call an still nothing.ive got no where with doing them on here….its telling i wasnt born in year an day ive put on here i no its the right date an year lol ive had the same bday for 27years! …if i get rejected again can i just clear this out an drive a hr away n go back to where i had them done last year seeing i had no prob. doing them there..haveing done them on here is just to much stress for me …plz let me no if i can go somewhere else thank you

  35. One question …. Today ( 02/01/2014) I do my Incontax with TurboTax …how many time is the averrage for deposit in my Checking account ?

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