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Confused: IRS Announces Business Modernized E-file Shutdown

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According to the latest announcement from Intuit, the IRS is due to shut down e-filing for business returns on Dec 21. This is many days earlier than the Dec 26 shutdown announced by the IRS earlier this month. Just did a quick search on the Internet but didn't find anything new... Perhaps Intuit knows something we don't or have I misunderstood Intuit's announcement this morning?

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IRonMaN

Level 15

I was scratching my head over that one too. Unfortunately, I was using my ACME head scratcher and my head is bleeding profusely as I type this.

Slava Ukraini!

itonewbieAuthor

Level 15

I'm a bit luckier - but only because I'm the glass-half-full kinda guy. I scratched my head on this one too this morning and now I see a small bald patch on my head. Well, at least I'm not bleeding like you. 😆

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itonewbieAuthor

Level 15

@Intuit_Matt B Could you please clarify what the announcement this morning is about so that users can get prepared if the shutdown date has indeed changed? Thanks!

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TaxGuyBill

My guess:

Employees are taking time off for Christmas. Intuit doesn't want to be responsible if something on their end doesn't work and there aren't any employees around to fix it.

IRonMaN

Level 15

The early date was selected because of the holiday. Evidently Intuit was going for the Twelve Days of Christmas, but programming ended up messing up and came up a little short of 12 days.

Never being one to miss out on an excuse to play high quality music here, I'm not going to pass on this chance eh. But I do have to run, my ACME bandages seem to make my head bleed worse than before I put them on. Good day, eh!

Twelve Days of Christmas performed by Bob and Doug McKenzie - YouTube

Slava Ukraini!

IntuitAustin

Level 10

Hi all, to clear up any confusion, we updated the language on this News & Updates post.

In preparation for the December 26th IRS Shutdown, ProSeries will stop accepting returns beginning on December 21st, 2020 in order to prepare the system for the upcoming Tax Year 2020 Filing Season. Any TY18 or TY19 returns submitted after 9 A.M. PST will be held in a 'Received by Intuit' status until the IRS re-opens business filing.

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IRonMaN

Level 15

I'm kinda thinking the confusion was related to "why that date" rather than "what is the date". Personally, I don't care. I have one return that could possibly be affected, but I'm not going to lose a lot of sleep over it. But for some folks that want to get some returns out the door, that really is mind boggling that Intuit would shut down that early. Some of us in the trenches do take time off for Christmas but I don't think many of us realized that evidently due to COVID, Christmas had grown from one day to almost one week.

Slava Ukraini!

IntuitAustin

Level 10

Thank you for your candid feedback about the deadline, we brought your feedback to the engineering team and we've made some modifications to our timeline.

Rather than beginning to hold returns on the 21st, we will begin holding business returns on December 23rd @ 2 P.M. PST, instead.

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