When does the IRS open for e-file?

I'm assuming it's midnight because I tried to start at 9:00, but it's not working. The weird thing is that the error message says we can start filing at 21:00.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Your problems trying to transmit last night (1/11) have probably disappeared by now since it's now Friday and I have transmitted several returns without problem. However, if you're sending RALs this weekend, be aware of the following and be sure to make your clients aware as well. During the first weekend of the efiling season, the IRS has always intentionally slowed the efile pipeline down to QA the system before they open the floodgates. This has always meant that the IRS has not issued ACKs before at least Sunday and usually Monday. This means that the bank won't approve RALs until it receives the IRS ACKs. This slowdown has always been unique to the first weekend of the efiling season, but you need to advise clients that there's a strong probability that you won't have an IRS response, and consequently a bank response, until Monday. In the past the IRS has always announced the plans for this slowdown, and I haven't seen any such announcements so far this year so maybe it won't happen. But if it happens (and it always has happened in the past), make sure that you tell your clients that any such slowdown is universal and is not limited to your practice, and that there is no workaround (short of an ADV RAL or ADV RT).

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