IRS withholding refund?

[Chinmay J.]

So I get my taxes filed by CPA for the first time in my life, and paid a premium fee of $685.  Things went smoothly for the most part, other than couple of MAJOR issues which I cannot afford to overlook.  I am detailing one of them in this post. Since the other one is irrelevant to this post, I will keep it outside of this post. 

When my CPA sent me the final documents I noticed that the debit date for Virginia Taxes is 5/1/2020. The very last date allowed by law (not withstanding this corona virus crisis we are currently in). I am not the kind of person who waits until the last day for doing anything. I am not a procrastinator and very proud of it !

So while I am now waiting for my VA taxes to get debited from my account, I noticed my IRS refund is delayed.. Is the Federal Govt waiting on VA to inform them to release my refund? My taxes were filed and accepted on/around 3/16.

When I go to IRS website, I get the following message.

Your tax return is still being processed.

A refund date will be provided when available.

When inquired, I was told that this is a default, which is a bunch of bull***t, and they did not have other option. I did not argue with the CPA's assistant, who did the filing, and majority of the work, but its unfathomable that software would be written in such fashion as to only permit the date of withdrawal to be the last possible date allowed by law, before penalties kick in and interest start accumulating. 

I later discovered that in the past, I had been able to file my own taxes using Turbo Tax and pay both IRS and VA Tax Authority well before 4/15. I think with a bit of training, I could do a lot better job working for CPA than some of these clowns..