The IRS has announced recently that they will not begin accepting returns until January 31, 2014. So for those looking to get their tax refund as soon as possible, it looks like the middle to end of February will be the soonest that the refunds will be issued. But this in no way means that we will not be able to work on returns in January, we will just have to hold the return and file it on January 31st.
For more information here are links to articles by CNN Money and the IRS:
http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/18/pf/taxes/2014-tax-season/index.html?iid=SF_PF_LN
