The moral to this story is "Don’t want until the last minute". So many people were e-filiing yesterday, that Intuit’s e-filing system became overloaded … and transactions that normally take minutes were, by Tuesday evening, taking hours.
A record number of returns from both individual taxpayers and accountants started causing delays in Intuit Inc.’s e-filing system early Tuesday, and the problem got worse as the midnight deadline for getting forms to the Internal Revenue Service approached, said Harry Pforzheimer, a company spokesman. Source: MSNBC
I filed weeks ago, and received my refunds late last week from both State and Federal agencies. However, last night I was trying to register my copy of Quicken, and it kept timing out … it didn’t occur to me what day it was. A friend of mine was trying to file at 10PM, and the program told him the submission was “pending”. When he checked back, it said it had failed … and it was already past midnight.
According to the story, Intuit has informed the IRS of the issue and the IRS will have a statement later today regarding this. Cross your fingers, you late filers!
