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What should you do if the IRS tool says it cannot determine your eligibility at this time and you meet every criteria?

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Best answer by Linda-Sunshine

Linda -- Yes I am having the same problem with a number of clients. I am finding that anyone who owed money on their return (even though they paid it using a bank account) are getting that same message of "Payment Information Not Available." This occurs whether or not they are self-employed. I have at least 5 clients in this same boat and all 5 are eligible for the check and have either been laid off or lost all their customers and are really hurting. Easy to recommend patience when you've got money flowing in.  I believe it is a glitch in the programming and have no idea when it will get straightened out. It is indeed frustrating.


Without any help from the professionals on this community forum, I was able to find information that basically stated what has been said on here as to the information provided when paying the tax bill was not for the purpose of Depositing and could not be used as such. I have also determined that several of the clients I have that have this issue had either just filed recently or had not filed 2019 as yet. 

Personal opinion, not facts, I think perhaps they are doing the 2019 filers first. If someone fell into the in-between area because of recently filing they may be okay soon. That is at least what I hope for those of my clients who are hurting from this situation. I don't have any clients that have not gotten the stimulus and are complaining when they are not in need. Those ones have simply wanted an explanation.

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abctax55
Level 15
April 15, 2020

Consider developing a bit of patience?

The site rolled out this morning...there are issues.

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IRonMaN
Level 15
April 15, 2020

@abctax55 wrote:

Consider developing a bit of patience?

The site rolled out this morning...there are issues.


Does anybody have patience these days?  We were getting calls this morning from clients (maybe soon to be former clients?) worried that other people they work with have received their payment but where is theirs?   If it was some of our lower income folks, I would cut them some slack but the calls that are coming are from folks that haven't been affected at all by this whole mess and are pushing the phase out range of the payments.  I'm really beginning to develop a negative attitude about humans.  Ok, I already had a bit of a negative attitude but this is making it worser.

Slava Ukraini!
qbteachmt
Level 15
April 15, 2020

@Linda-Sunshine 

Are you using Intuit's ProSeries tax preparation program for your clients? If not, and this is a personal guidance question, you are lost on the internet. You asked this question in a forum meant for How To Use the professional tax preparation program that you would use to prepare your clients' tax returns.

You will find the TurboTax community is a better resource for personal tax and IRS issues and updates:

https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/discussions/discussion/03/302

 

Don't yell at us; we're volunteers
qbteachmt
Level 15
April 19, 2020

Man, I am so mad at all of this. It's so Rude.

 

Let's go back to the Original Question:

"What should you do if the IRS tool says it cannot determine your eligibility at this time and you meet every criteria?"

You should Wait.

Not being able to determine eligibility has nothing with being eligible or getting a stimulus payment or meeting any criteria. It's a Failure of a portal that is trying to Validate info provided.

No one here has anything to do with that portal or that validation. Watch for the IRS to fix their site.

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