A spokesperson at Intuit’s commercial tax preparer TurboTax said that the IRS’s technical difficulties affects all tax preparers and tax returns.
“Taxpayers should go ahead and continue to prepare and file their taxes as normal with TurboTax,” the spokesperson said.
“TurboTax has uninterrupted service and is available and accepting e-filed returns,” she said. “We will hold returns until the IRS is ready to begin accepting them again.”
H&R Block said it will continue to accept returns from filers.
“Despite the IRS outage, H&R Block is open and continuing to process tax returns for our clients,” said an H&R Block spokesperson.
“While the IRS system is down, we are completing the returns, which will be sent as soon as the IRS system re-opens and will be considered filed on time.”
Here’s the full statement from the IRS:
The Internal Revenue Service announced today that it is providing taxpayers an additional day to file and pay their taxes following system issues that surfaced early on the April 17 tax deadline. Individuals and businesses with a filing or payment due date of April 17 will now have until midnight on Wednesday, April 18. Taxpayers do not need to do anything to receive this extra time.
The IRS encountered system issues Tuesday morning. Throughout the system outage, taxpayers were still able to file their tax returns electronically through their software providers and Free File. Taxpayers using paper to file and pay their taxes at the deadline were not affected by the system issue.
“This is the busiest tax day of the year, and the IRS apologizes for the inconvenience this system issue caused for taxpayers,” said Acting IRS Commissioner David Kautter. “The IRS appreciates everyone’s patience during this period. The extra time will help taxpayers affected by this situation.”
The IRS advised taxpayers to continue to file their taxes as normal Tuesday evening – whether electronically or on paper. Automatic six-month extensions are available to taxpayers who need additional time to file can visit https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/extension-of-time-to-file-your-tax-return.
CNBC’s Lorie Konish and Ryan Ruggiero contributed to this story.
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