The site will be placed in maintenance on Monday, March 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.

DELAWARE

• Update Volunteer Firefighter credit text on page to reflect $500 instead of $400 (Issue 6875)

IOWA (Part-Year)

• Military pay adjustment not carrying to IA return (Issue 6879)

NEW JERSEY (Part-Year)

• Do not pro-rate property taxes paid entry based on residency dates (Issue 6847)

Impacted 2020 NC returns can be resubmitted.

Software vendors received the below message from NC DOR regarding a reject potentially impacting 2020 NC returns. They can be resubmitted once this blog post has been updated.

“It has been identified that business rule NCD400-2010 – [D-400/D-400 Sch S] – Line 7 must equal Schedule S Part A line 17 is triggering in error for Tax Year 2020 returns. NCDOR is currently working on a fix to correct. We will notify you once the fix has been deployed to production.“

The site will be placed in maintenance on Friday, March 4th, 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.

CAPITAL LOSS CARRYOVER WORKSHEET

• Line 1 value not including QBID carryover from prior year (Issue 6859)

FORM 8962

• Add the ability to include a statement with a return after certain F8962 rejects (2021 Update)

NEW JERSEY

• Property tax credit not calculating when TP is eligible for (and filing) homestead benefit but TP has a NJ filing requirement (Issue 6834)

12:59pm ET – The fix for California is actively being deployed. During the next hour or so, you may experience slowness while inside the program. This will subside as the deploy finishes.

An update with this mornings deployment caused an issue where Federal returns with a CA state return is experiencing a broken calc (summary/print page won’t load). The fix for this issue will deployed soon. We apologize for the inconvenience.

The site will be placed in maintenance on Wednesday, March 2nd, 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.

AMENDED RETURN

• Display issue on Lines 7 and 8 of F1040-X (Issue 6814)

DELAWARE

• DE return not calculating additional standard deduction when age 65 and/or blind (Issue 6835)

W-2

• Update box 3 social security wage threshold to 2021 amount (Issue 6820)

WEST VIRGINIA

• Schedule M, Lines 32a/b displaying incorrect amounts (Issue 6846)

Update from NC DOR – 3/1/2022

NCDOR is proud to announce that our MeF system for IIT is now open for eFile.

Although we are open, please note that we are working through a significant backlog and hope to have all submissions acknowledged within the next few days.

Note: If a return gets this reject – NCD400-1160.  Rejected Submission provided in StateSubmissionIdOrig is not found in System, all you need to do is resubmit the NC return.

Update from NC DOR – 2/16/2022

NC DOR released an update to software vendors indicating they expect to begin processing returns (sending acknowledgements) the week of February 28th. As NC works to process their backlog to send acknowledgements, it is possible you may receive an accepted ack and a rejected ack for a duplicate submission. The rejected ack for a duplicate submission can be ignored if an accepted acknowledgement was also received.

Due to recently enacted legislation impacting North Carolina tax returns, North Carolina will most likely not be ready to begin accepting e-files when the IRS opens on January 24th. Software vendors, including TaxSlayer, are now actively testing their software with North Carolina for the appropriate approvals. At this time, North Carolina returns can be prepared in our software, however, when accessing the e-file menu, you will encounter an e-file block for North Carolina. This block will be removed as the appropriate approvals are received.

Update On Impact of COVID-19 Relief Provisions on NC Income Tax Returns

3/1/22 – To accurately report the NY Excluded Workers Fund (EWF) payments reported on 1099-G, Box 6, it is a two-step process.

1. Visit the “Form 1099-G Box 1” menu in the Income section and complete the 1099-G to match the hard copy. Note: This will NOT carry Box 6 amount to Federal return (this is where step 2 comes into play), but WILL carry the NY withholdings to the NY state return.
2. After adding the 1099-G, go to Less Common Income > Other Income Not Reported Elsewhere > Select “Other Income” from the drop-down. Enter the amount from the 1099-G, Box 6 again here so that it accurately carries to the 1040 as well as flowing to the NY return.

Following the above steps will allow your site to electronically file impacted NY returns.

2/21/22 – Box 6 input is now live for 1099-G. However, impacted returns should still be held as additional guidance will be coming soon on how to accurately report within TaxSlayer Pro to make sure everything is carrying where it needs to go.

For 2021, NY State Department of Labor issued 1099-G’s with an amount in Box 6 for the Excluded Workers Fund (EWF). We will be updating our current 1099-G entry page to support Box 6 entries. We expect this update to be released this week. This post will be updated after it is released.

The Georgia Department of Revenue issued the below communication to software vendors. The update is already live in the software. Note: Impacted GA returns filed prior to the update do not need to amend the return to claim the additional deduction. The GA DOR will make the appropriate corrections for the taxpayers.

Individual Income Tax $300 ($600 MFJ) Charitable Contributions with Standard Deduction

• Georgia allows the $300 ($600 MFJ) Charitable Contributions Deduction if it is allowed on their Federal 1040 or 1040-SR.