Returns being accepted already?

[OrantesTaxPro]

Submitted a bunch of returns this week to be on que. Today, the majority of them were accepted. Were these accepted by the IRS or only accepted by Intuit and they are being forwarded to the IRS tomorrow the 12th? PS - They all appear on the ACCEPTED tab of ProSeries. 

[gabletax]

That means IRS accepted them. Congratulations!

[Just-Lisa-Now-]

HUB testing.  They pull in samples to test their Efile system.

[OrantesTaxPro]

Nice, guess they were their test guinea pigs. Hopefully everything else goes smoothly. 

[rbynaker]

The IRS has been accepting returns.  I don't know if Intuit started participating in HUB testing this year or if the IRS floodgates sprung a leak a few hours early this year.

[PATAX]

A tax preparer who uses Drake said he had a large number of returns accepted by IRS.

[BobKamman]

@rbynaker "the IRS floodgates sprung a leak"

You mean, the Dam IRS ?

They probably realized there wasn't enough paper at Treasury to print all the checks if they waited another couple days to process all the returns on hold.  It will be interesting to see how soon the Where's My Refund site is available for 2020 returns.