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Release Notes: February 1st – CO, E-FILE, IRA Deduction, LA, OR & Sch. C/F

31 Jan 23
Craig Smith
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A product deployment for TaxSlayer Pro Online will occur Wednesday, February 1st, 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.

COLORADO

  • TABOR credit not reflecting on Line 33 (Issue 7678)
  • Social security subtraction not limited to $20,000 when TP over 55 and under 65 (Issue 7694)

E-FILE MENU

  • Mask Preparer Phone Number and E-mail when inside e-file menu (2022 Update)

IRA DEDUCTION

  • IRA deduction worksheet Line 3 not including INT/DIV income (Issue 7694)

LOUISIANA

  • Schedule E exemptions not subtracting correctly (Issue 7803)
  • Update military pay exclusion onscreen text to reflect $50,000 (Issue 7792)

OREGON

  • Schedule OR-EIC-ITIN Section 3, Line 5 initial amount calc error (Issue 7706)

SCHEDULE C/F

  • Update LTC Premium amounts to 2022 limits (Issue 7489)

 

 

Reminder: Paper Filed Returns Must Display Full SSN

31 Jan 23
Craig Smith
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We received messages from a couple state departments indicating they have received paper returns where the SSN’s were masked/truncated. If a taxpayer at your site needs to paper file a return (Federal or state), please make sure they receive a PDF of their return with the full SSN displayed. Generally, a preparer with a security template that has “View Full SSN” marked should print PDF’s for the taxpayer to mail in when needed. It is also possible that the taxpayer simply mailed in their masked PDF copy after the site e-filed the return instead of keeping the PDF for their records. Hard to combat against that but we are posting this message as a favor to state departments to help reduce/eliminate paper returns with masked SSN’s arriving at their door.

Message from AL: Alabama Standard Deduction MFS Rejections

30 Jan 23
Craig Smith
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Software vendors received the below message from AL this morning (1/30/23). If you have any impacted returns do not resubmit until this post has been updated.

“Good Afternoon, Industry Partners,

We have discovered returns that should not be rejecting for MFS and Standard Deduction. This issue is being corrected. I will let you know when it has been resolved.”

How To Subscribe To The TaxSlayer VITA/TCE Blog

30 Jan 23
Craig Smith
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If you are reading this post from your e-mail inbox, CONGRATULATIONS! You are a subscriber of the TaxSlayer VITA/TCE Blog! If you happened to visit our blog page never saw this post in your e-mail, you are not subscribed to the blog BUT SHOULD BE!

HOW TO SUBSCRIBE:

Being a subscriber will allow you to receive automatic e-mail updates highlighting recently published blog articles (generally around 8:30am ET). These come in handy during tax season!

STEP 1:

  • If you are reading this post, simply scroll to the bottom of the article and look to the right hand side of the page and find the “RSS FEED” box. OR you can simply open any blog post and follow the same instruction of scrolling to the bottom and looking to the right side of the page.

STEP 2:

  • Enter your e-mail address, check the consent checkbox, then select “Sign Me Up”.
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STEP 3: IMPORTANT!

  • Check your provided e-mail account to finalize the subscription process.

 

Release Notes: January 27th – DE, F982, F1040-ES, F8888, IA, ME & Personal Info

26 Jan 23
Craig Smith
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A product deployment for TaxSlayer Pro Online will occur Friday, January 27th, 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.

DELAWARE

  • Update text related to the new limits of the volunteer firefighter credit (Issue 7635)

FORM 982

  • Entry in program not carrying to Part 1, Line 2 of PDF (Issue 7488)

FORM 1040-ES

  • Update print to include mailing addresses (Issue 7653)

FORM 8888

  • Print alignment issue on PDF (Issue 7652)

IOWA

  • Form 148, Part I update to allow 5-digit certificate numbers (Issue 7637)

MAINE

  • Form 1310 entries not saving when exiting state return (Issue 7619)

PERSONAL INFO

  • Checking natural disaster checkbox is causing a validation error when continuing (Issue 7645)

 

 

LA State Returns Turned Off For E-file [UPDATE]

25 Jan 23
Craig Smith
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1/25/2023 – LA returns can now be electronically filed at this time. If your site previously received a LA Reject for “vendor not approved”, those returns can be resubmitted at this time.


LA returns have temporarily been turned off for e-file. This article will be updated once LA e-file has been turned back on. You can still prepare LA returns in the program and e-file Federal and other state returns. Once LA is available for e-file, sites will need to go into each return and file LA as state only.

Message from OH: Error Code OH-IT1040-136

25 Jan 23
Craig Smith
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OH recently experienced an issue where they issued Reject Code OH-IT1040-136 in error. If your site has any OH returns with this reject code they can be resubmitted at this time. If the Federal return was previously accepted, please resubmit the OH return as State Only.

Release Notes: January 25th – CO, W-2, MA, MD, NH, Sch. A & WA

24 Jan 23
Craig Smith
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A product deployment for TaxSlayer Pro Online will occur Wednesday, January 25th, 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.

COLORADO

  • Form 0104AD, Line 4 not being reduced by Line 3 when TP age 65 and older (Issue 7606)

FORM W-2

  • Box 3 limit not updated to 2022 (Issue 7607)

MASSACHUSETS

  • Alimony Paid/Received repealed for TY22 (Issue 7612)

MARYLAND

  • Senior tax credit not calculating for HoH and QSS when Fed AGI over $100k but under $150k (Issue 7631)

NEW HAMPSHIRE

  • DP-10, Line 10 needs to calculate at 5% (Issue 7630)

SCHEDULE A

  • Update general sales tax deduction worksheet to use Table A for NYC borough’s (Issue 7632)

WASHINGTON

  • Marking checking in e-file is showing savings on PDF and vice versa (Issue 7624)
  • Credit given when earned income is equal to max threshold when it should be less than (Issue 7628)
  • Credit given on a $0 return/application (Issue 7622)