Is everyone experiencing delays in extension payments not being withdrawn?

I, too, am having that problem.  I'm happy to hear that we are not the only ones.  I was beginning to think I did something wrong.

I am having the same problem, specifcally with Lacerte tax extension payments.  It is now 4/23 and there are 4/15 efile tax extension payments that have not cleared the bank.  I have confirmation of timely tax extension filing and acceptance on 4/15.

The reason they tell you to wait ten business days is that sometimes it takes ten business days.  So, wait until Wednesday COB.  It must be a state secret, why it takes ten business days to process a payment.  A bank could not get away with that on loan payments.  

The IRS flags 1 to 2 million  returns for potential identity theft annually. According to last year's Taxpayer Advocate report, as of early 2025 there was a backlog of over 447,000 active Identity Theft Victim Assistance (IDTVA) cases. For the 2024 filing season specifically, the IRS suspended processing on over 1.9 million tax returns pending identity verification.  If someone filed a fake return in February, using your SSN and claiming a refund, what would IRS do with a return filed in April showing a balance due?  Another state secret, I suppose.  

The whole "use approved software and we'll let you include automatic withdrawals" sounds like a variation on "we're from the government and we want to help."  Does the anxiety expressed in some of these comments come from concern about taxes being paid, or concern about reputation for selling this scheme to clients who trust you?

Here's a clue about what might be happening.  IRS doesn't deal with your bank.  It turns the job over to Treasury, which then assigns the work to a "financial agent."  What are those?  The National Bank Acts of 1863 and 1864 grant Treasury the authority to retain financial agents, private companies that provide services on its behalf. (Yes, this goes back more than 150 years.)  According to the Treasury website, which may be outdated, there are four active financial agents:  Bank of New York Mellon; Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac; and FSI Group.  (Who are FSI?  Who knows.  But it looks like they were involved only in the TARP program.)

We all know that the Secretary of the Treasury has a lot on his plate.  For a while he was also acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue, until the clock ran out on that temporary gig.  Lately he's been imposing and/or lifting sanctions on oil tankers.  But he used to work for George Soros, so I'm confident he has everything under control.  

So, what are we supposed to do? I have 3 clients whose IRS payments were never made.

My clients are now going to be penalized for both 2025 and 2026, as part of the payments were going to get applied towards 1st Quarter 2026 Taxes.

One client made a payment of $110,000. He is not going to be happy. I will end up having to cover his Penalties, in order to retain him as a client. Essentially I'll end up preparing his 2025 Tax Returns for free.

Is Lacerte going to simply place blame on the IRS, and the IRS simply going to blame Lacerte, with NOBODY taking responsibility? Is Intuit going to say, "Sorry, too bad, things happen, we're not gonna help you with those Penalties"?

Just want to know what to do. I'll have my clients make new payments before 4/30, so at least the Interest will be minimized.

Finally, my client saw 5 digit withdraw for extension submitted an accepted on deadline came out April 27th.  It was hard keeping client calm and me too!

Stardate 4.28.26

P A T I E N C E    - They say it is a virtue 

FWIW -  My OWN payment just cleared my bank this morning.   

Now I can relax 

I have been experiencing the same issues with several extension payments.  Since it's the 28th, I was a little nervous about whether these payments were ever going to be processed.  Lacerte suggested I contact the EFTPS line 888-353-4537.  The representative was able to confirm that the payments in question were processed in the last couple of days and should be coming out of the bank accounts in next couple of days.

So, it's not 4/30 and most of the payments for my clients went through yesterday. However I have 4 very large payments that still haven't gone through. It's now the 11th business day. Anyone else have payments outstanding? 

We had a similar problem with one or two large payments but both managed to clear within a day or two of the scheduled payment.  As can be seen from recent posts, it's not just withdrawals but direct deposits too.

As Treasury moves to electronic transfers as the primary means of settling up, it needs to put in "pre-clearance procedures" to "ping" bank accounts to determine if banking information lines up BEFORE attempting to process an EFT (i.e., to make sure that the bank name, account name, account number, routing number and availability of funds all aligns with taxpayer instructions - and that those instructions were correct).  If the pre-clearance check fails, Treasury should contact/email/text the requester two days in advance to allow the requester time to correct the problem (i.e., change account information, move funds, etc.).  In their zeal to process all transactions electronically, they woefully failed to account for human error.  Even wire transactions have pre-clearance notifications.  Ironically, this will not improve on its own...