The phrase "accept filings" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to legal, administrative, or business processes where documents or applications are submitted for consideration or approval.
Example: "The court will accept filings until the end of the month for the upcoming case."
Alternatives: "receive submissions" or "process applications".
Despite the impasse, some court functions continue: Juveniles must report for probation hearings, and the courts will accept filings and payments.
By refusing to accept filings by companies that it thinks are violating the rules, the S.E.C. could enforce some conformity in the application of the standards, at least among internationally traded companies.
In an effort to deal with that issue, the S.E.C. has said it would accept filings using international standards only if they complied fully with the standards as issued by the board.
The S.E.C. has effective control over corporate accounting in the United States because it can refuse to accept filings from companies that do not comply with what the S.E.C. considers to be acceptable accounting methods.
Four years ago, the commission seemed to be much more enthusiastic when it announced plans to accept filings using international rules from foreign companies whose securities trade in the United States and set out a schedule that it said could lead to adoption of the rules for American companies.
In other situations, courts readily reach the sensible result that administrators don't have to accept filings from children tendered by meddling adults, even if the child made a mark on the page and says that he wants whatever goody is on offer.
The court does not accept computer filings, although one of the court's judges, Tom Price, said in an interview this week, "We're reviewing all our procedures and policies".
Also Wednesday, a petition calling for the court to accept electronic filings and signed by more than 300 lawyers — including two former Texas Supreme Court justices and other former judges, the head of the Texas Commission for Lawyer Discipline and partners of leading Texas law firms — was delivered in Austin by the Texas Civil Rights Project, a legal advocacy group.
If the IRS were to accept electronic filings without an intermediary, firms like H&R Block could find themselves in major trouble.
In court papers, the state has said it would accept the joint filings from couples with civil unions for the 2007 tax year.
Minnesota refused to accept TurboTax e-filings, Alabama and Utah issued taxpayer warnings and Vermont halted refunds.
