Tuesday, September 10th 2019

The Utah State Tax Commission have indicated they are now able to process acknowledgements once again.

“We were able to get back online on Sunday.”

Friday, September 6th 2019

Software vendors received the below message from the Utah State Tax Commission. State acknowledgements from UT will not be sent until UT resolves their connectivity issues.

“We are working to resolve connectivity issues with the IRS. This applies to our production and test environments. We expect to have this resolved by Tuesday, Sept. 10. You will not receive acknowledgments from us until then.“

The site will be placed in maintenance on Thursday, September 5th to release the below software updates.

MONTANA

• Correct an issue where the Qualified Endowment Credit page opened blank (Issue 3815)

NEW MEXICO

• Update text within the blue header of the “Medical Care Expenses for age 65 and Older” page (Issue 3818)

*Click here to download a PDF of our Cumulative Release Notes & Program Enhancements.

The site will be placed in maintenance on Tuesday, August 27th to release the below software update, but mainly back-end updates will be pushed out during this deployment.

HEALTH INSURANCE

• Corrected a redirect issue with the Affordability Worksheet. After rendering results of either qualifying or not, if a user clicked “Back”, it would re-calculate instead of redirecting the user back to the Affordability Worksheet screen (Issue 2225)

SCHEDULE C

• Correct an issue where attempting to access an already created Schedule C is triggering an “Unexpected Request” message for some users (Issue 3791)

*Click here to download a PDF of our Cumulative Release Notes & Program Enhancements.

The site will be placed in maintenance on Thursday, August 22nd to release the below software updates.

MARRIED FILING SEPARATE – INCORRECT DEPENDENT E-FILE BLOCK

• Correct an issue where a MFS return listed a dependent, but received an e-file block in error when the Spouse was listed as being claimed as a dependent on another return (Issue 3672)

M1PR REJECT CODE 995

• Correct an issue with the calculated M1PR refund causing M1PR Reject Code 995. Impacted returns can be resubmitted on 8/22 (Issue 3794)

*Click here to download a PDF of our Cumulative Release Notes & Program Enhancements.

The site will be placed in maintenance on Tuesday, August 20th to release the below software updates.

SCHEDULE C GRID

• Added a column for Expenses/Net Income to the grid view for a quick view of overall profit/loss (Enhancement)

MARYLAND – 2017

• Correct an issue where a 2017 MD amended return is displaying a non-applicable itemized deduction amount (Issue 3764)

RHODE ISLAND – 2017

• Correct an issue on Form RI1310 is not pulling Date of Death and Signature Date from Federal return when selected (Issue 3787)

*Click here to download a PDF of our Cumulative Release Notes & Program Enhancements.

As sites begin to prepare training for the upcoming filing season, we wanted to put together a cumulative document depicting program enhancements introduced since May of 2019. We hope this will help in your training material preparations. All enhancements have already been included in each Release Notes blog post (and cumulative Release Notes PDF), but we wanted to also have a dedicated document specific to enhancements.

Beginning with the next deployment, a cumulative enhancement document will be available for all to view in each Release Notes blog post moving forward. The below link is already included in our Release Notes posts, but now includes the 2019 TaxSlayer Enhancement document. Go ahead and check it out!

*Click here to download a PDF of our Cumulative Release Notes & Program Enhancements.

The below message was released by the IRS. During the below outlined times, returns electronically filed will not receive an acknowledgement until after system maintenance has been completed.

“Both the MeF ATS and Production environments will be unavailable for use Sunday August 18, 2019, beginning at 1:00 a.m. Eastern through 1:00 p.m. Eastern. Maintenance will be performed to ensure the system is functioning at peak performance.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.”

The site will be placed in maintenance on Thursday, August 1st to release the below software updates.

CLIENT LIST PAGE NAVIGATION

• The page navigation found on the top of Client List will be added to the bottom of Client List. This will allow users to easily navigate to other Client List pages from either the top or bottom of the page (Enhancement)

E-FILE: DIRECT DEBIT

• Just like the “Pull Refund” feature when a taxpayer is receiving a refund utilizing Direct Deposit, we are adding a “Pull Balance Due” feature for Direct Debit returns when the taxpayer wishes to pay the balance owed in full (Enhancement)

PENNSYLVANIA

• Correct a display issue where PA W-2S is pulling an incorrect code for 1099-R, Box 7 Codes 7 and 7D. Code I is being pulled instead of Code K (Issue 3769)

REJECTED CLIENTS MENU

• We are adding a column in this page to include the Preparer’s Name to make it easier to manage reject corrections by easily identifying which preparer(s) belonged to which return without having to run various reports (Enhancement)

*Click here to download a PDF of our Cumulative Release Notes & Program Enhancements.