Colorado state refund pending for over a week. It’s usually accepted with in a few minutes? Did I do something wrong?

You can check the status of your Colorado refund online here. 

There is no need to log in. Simply choose the option "Where's My Refund for Individuals" in the box labeled "Refund Resources". Then, enter your SSN or ITIN and the refund amount you claimed on your current year's income tax return. If you do not know the refund amount you claimed, you may either use a Letter ID number from a recent income tax correspondence from the Colorado Department of Revenue.

I can confirm with ErnieS0. I filed FED and Colorado STATE on Jan 26th, and for the last 10 years, I have always received an acceptance email from TurboTax for the state of Colorado within 24 hours. This year, still no acceptance email, and my TurboTax desktop application still says "Pending". (I have already received my Federal refund.)

I contacted the Colorado DOR via phone and they confirmed that you can "file" using a third party filer, ie TurboTax, but they will be "accepting" the returns "no later than February 10, 2023". Before 2/3/23, the website link that ErnieS0 posted did not give dates and only said that they would be accepting returns sometime the first week of February. They have now posted a "no later than" date. I assume that means they will start batching all our returns sometime before 2/10/23, and we should get an acceptance email from TurboTax on or before that date. Once they have accepted, you can then use MonikaK1 suggestion of checking the status.

Since this is an additional paid service with TurboTax, I feel that TurboTax should have had a better way to relay this information. There should be a schedule somewhere on their website for states that are not ready to accept e-files, especially since TurboTax states that should happen within 48 hours.

I will post back here when I receive my acceptance email from TurboTax. I would ask you do the same. And thanks for your inquiry, for the first few days, this was driving me nuts!😜

GOOD NEWS. I received the TurboTax email at 2:00 am this morning, 2/11, that says the state of Colorado has accepted my return that was filed on 1/26/23. Only 2 hours past the "no later than date" of 2/10/23 posted on the Colorado DOR site https://tax.colorado.gov/ROL-Delays-Acceptance-of-2022-Returns. Not bad Colorado. I also received TurboTax CO state acceptation emails at 6:13 am this morning, 2/11, for two other returns that were filed on 2/2/23. I have checked the Colorado DOR site for the status of all these returns and the one I filed on 1/26/23 shows "Refund Reviewed", but the other two show as "Not Yet Processed".

@FutureExCust

I cannot speak to other issues you have had with TT, but this particular one was not the fault of TT. I do agree and suggest to TT that there should have been notification to all Colorado filers of this delay as was noted in my previous post.

@AmyC 

Thank you for your additional information of the IRS request to delay filing. I have an issue of how TT has handled this situation. I use TT so that I do not have to spend time studying tax code. I have in the past done my own business tax returns and spent hours studying tax code. The main reason I pay for TT is that they will do this for me. Colorado distributed TABOR cash refunds to millions of people last year. This was not a fringe tax issue. The Colorado DOR site even suggested that this would not be taxable. So if TT was aware that the IRS could possibly tax these refunds, then it was absolutely their responsibility to notify their paying clients of this issue. TT issues desktop app updates every Thursday (sometimes Friday). They flag forms that are not ready to be filed, so there is no reason why they could not have flagged this issue within the program. I would have gladly waited until yesterday when they learned the refunds would not be taxable. Had I had to submit three amended returns because of this, I would have looked twice at using TT in the future. I will reiterate, I pay for this app so that I do not have to spend my personal time learning tax code. I hope the tax experts can understand this and forward this to the Powers That Be.

All that being said, and to end on a positive note, I have had a great experience with TT for the past 10 years. The desktop apps have rarely caused issue and the experts and knowledge base have always been helpful. Thanks to all who have contributed to addressing this particular issue.

I'm guessing Colorado is still accepting the returns? It states my state taxes have been received but when tracking on the department of Revenue it says return not received... Is there some other issues?

It says it's been transmitted with state.