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1/15/2024: All Puerto Rico Practice Exercises have been updated and uploaded to the Practice Lab. At this time, all Practice Exercises have been updated 2023.

1/8/2024: The below practice exercises are now updated to reflect current 2023 calculations. Puerto Rico Practice Exercises are expected to be updated by mid-week next week.

• Practice Exercise 1
• Practice Exercise 2
• Practice Exercise 3
• Practice Exercise 4
• Practice Exercise 5
• Practice Exercise 6
• Practice Exercise 7
• Practice Exercise International
• Practice Exercise Military

1/3/2024: The Practice Lab Practice Exercises will be updated to 2023 by Wednesday, January 10th.

To help set expectations in the field, the practice exercises under Section 6 of the Practice Lab will be updated to 2023 in early January 2024. This article will be updated when 2023 Practice Exercises are live in the Practice Lab. We want to provide extra time for additional updates to be applied to the 2023 software before updating the exercises. This time of year both the IRS and State Departments are continually releasing and finalizing forms, schedules, and instructions to software vendors. As mentioned in a previous blog post, regular updates will be implemented into the software as information is released/provided to software vendors over the next several weeks leading into the upcoming filing season.

At this time, the practice exercises are still based on the 2022 application.

1/2/2024 – Roughly fifteen (15) State Returns are now live! Please note the information posted below when reviewing the initial state application release. The remaining states will be released for preparation over the next couple of weeks as the various approvals are received by state departments.

Note: Initial load times may be slower than normal, but this will subside as additional state returns are created, etc.

It is important to keep in mind when accessing 2023 state returns as they become available, some states may have been delayed in releasing final 2023 forms/instructions. As you prepare 2023 state returns in the Practice Lab, you may still see 2022 calculations and/or PDF forms. Customer Support will not be creating issues for these items until the states are closer to finalization.  As information continues to be released and finalized by the states, the Practice Lab will be updated to reflect the most recent information available.

Note: This is the same process every year and is normal behavior.

5:20pm ET – This issue has resolved. Access to 2022 and 2023 has been restored.

5:10pm ET – We are currently investigating an issue where users are unable to access returns in 2022 production and 2023 practice lab. Updates will be available on this post as they become available.

11/9/2023 Update: This post will no longer be updated. Please refer to this blog post instead: Click Here

With the release of a new application year (2023), some oddities and functionality issues may occur. Below are items that have been identified and reported to our development team. This will be a fluid blog post of known functionality issues within the 2023 Practice Lab.

• Due Diligence Checklist (Form 8867) is being required in 2022 (live returns and Practice Lab) and 2023 Practice Lab  for eligible returns
• Customer Portal is visible in the Practice Lab when it should not be
• 1040 View in 2023 Practice Lab shows the 2022 1040
• Medicaid Waiver input field in W-2 is only displaying if “include as earned income” checkbox is also checked
• Income threshold listed on dependent page needs updating (currently shows $4,400)
• Form 8863 is not currently calculating
• Schedule OI does not allow you to enter multiple types of exempt income

A product deployment for TaxSlayer Pro Online will occur Tuesday, November 7th beginning at 5:00am ET to release the below update(s). Note that deployments may take up to 3 hours to complete. During this time, access to the program may be limited.

PRACTICE LAB

• 2023 Practice Lab will be released

Practice Lab 2023 is scheduled to be released/available on Tuesday, November 7th. Please keep in mind that the Practice Lab will be updated twice a week as we receive finalized forms and instructions from the IRS. With that, we ask volunteers to not report calculation issues to support.

With the Practice Lab 2023 release, you will have access to PL 2023 and PL 2022.

When you log in to your Production Sites, you will see the following TaxSlayer 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018. You do not have the ability to create new returns in 2023, but you can still prepare returns in all of the available prior years. You will be able to electronically file 2022, 2021 and 2020 until the IRS shuts down their MeF system on November 18th at 11:59pm ET.

States will not be available in Practice Lab 2023 until closer to the filing season in either late December or early January. You can use PL 2022 to have your volunteers train or practice with state returns.

1/4/2023: The following practice exercises have been updated in the 2022 application and uploaded to Section 6 of the Practice Lab. Practice Exercise 4 will be updated once a software issue is resolved.

• Practice Exercise 1
• Practice Exercise 2
• Practice Exercise 3
• Practice Exercise 5
• Practice Exercise 6
• Practice Exercise 7
• Practice Exercise International
• Practice Exercise Military
• Puerto Rico Practice Exercises 1 – 7

1/2/2023: The Practice Lab Practice Exercises will be updated to 2022 by Friday, January 6th.

To help set expectations in the field, the practice exercises under Section 6 of the Practice Lab will be updated to 2022 closer to late December/early January. This article will be updated when 2022 Practice Exercises are live in the Practice Lab. We want to provide extra time for additional updates to be applied to the 2022 software before updating the exercises. This time of year both the IRS and State Departments are continually releasing and finalizing forms, schedules, and instructions to software vendors. As mentioned in a previous blog post, regular updates will be implemented into the software as information is released/provided to software vendors over the next several weeks leading into the upcoming filing season.

At this time, the practice exercises are still based on the 2021 application.

1/2/2023 – Roughly nineteen (19) State Returns are now live! Please note the information posted below when reviewing the initial state application release. The remaining states will be released for preparation over the next couple of weeks as the various approvals are received by state departments.

Note: Initial load times may be slower than normal, but this will subside as additional state returns are created, etc.

It is important to keep in mind when accessing 2022 state returns as they become available, some states may have been delayed in releasing final 2022 forms/instructions. As you prepare 2022 state returns in the Practice Lab, you may still see 2021 calculations and/or PDF forms. Customer Service will not be creating issues for these items until the states are closer to finalization.  As information continues to be released and finalized by the states, the Practice Lab will be updated to reflect the most recent information available.

Note: This is the same process every year and is normal behavior.