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Release Notes: February 28th – MT & VA

27 Feb 22
Craig Smith
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The site will be placed in maintenance on Monday, February 28th, 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.

MONTANA

  • Correct an issue resulting in erroneous MT rejects (Issue 6810)

VIRGINIA

  • Adjust how itemized deductions are carried from Federal to VA PY return (Issue 6783)
  • Update Line 1 of Age Deduction Worksheet to reflect “2” when applicable (Issue 6706)

 

Montana Reject Codes Form2-E072, Form2-E142 & Form2-E008 [UPDATE]

25 Feb 22
Craig Smith
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2/28/22 – Impacted MT returns can be resubmitted.


If your site has a MT return with any of the listed reject codes in the blog title, the fix is scheduled to be deployed Monday morning. At this time, please hold impacted MT returns. This post will be updated after the fix has been deployed and tested.

Release Notes: February 25th – CA, IA (2020), NJ, NM, NY & UT

24 Feb 22
Craig Smith
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The site will be placed in maintenance on Friday, February 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.

CALIFORNIA

  • Line 11, Column D on F3849 not calculating a value (Issue 6795)

IOWA (2020)

  • Amended return not calculating when negative value on Line 3 (Issue 6767)
  • Capital Gains not carrying to Line 6 when MFS (Issue 6797)

NEW JERSEY

  • Property tax credit calculating when TP has filing requirement and indicates eligible (and receives) homestead benefit (Issue 6804)

NEW MEXICO

  • Special needs adoption credit not calculating when dependents over 18 (Issue 6793)

NEW YORK

  • NY EIC not calculating when MFJ with 1 SP over age 65 and 1 SP under age 65 (Issue 6753)

UTAH

  • TC-40A not displaying D.O.B. when claiming retirement code 18 (Issue 6802)

 

North Carolina Military Subtraction: Bailey Settlement vs. Retired US Armed Forces Members

24 Feb 22
Craig Smith
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This post is to help clarify how to report a subtraction from North Carolina income for applicable military retirement benefits. There are two input fields located within the Subtraction from Income menu inside the North Carolina state program.

  1. Amount of taxable retirement benefits that qualify for the Bailey Settlement included on Federal return” – In short, the Bailey Settlement subtraction means that North Carolina may not tax certain retirement benefits received by retirees (or beneficiaries of retirees) of the state of North Carolina and its local governments or by United States government retirees (including military). Any military retirement income reported in this input field in the program cannot also be reported in Item 2 below. This will create a double-dip in subtraction in the calculation. Entries here carry to Line 19 of the D-400 Schedule S.
  2. Retired US Armed Forces Income” – In short, Line 20 of D-400, Schedule S, allows for a subtraction of certain retirement benefits received by a retired member of the United States Armed Forces not deducted on Line 19 (Item 1 above).

Essentially, any qualified retirement income subtracted under the Bailey Settlement on Line 19 cannot also be claimed on Line 20 of D-400, Schedule S. Also, any amount qualified to be subtracted on Line 20 for certain retired US Armed Forces income cannot have also been subtracted on Line 19.

TaxSlayer Phone Support Currently Unavailable [RESOLVED]

23 Feb 22
Craig Smith
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5:44pm ET – The issue has been resolved.


5:35pm ET – Our phone servicer provider is currently experiencing an issue with receiving inbound phone calls. At this time, phone support is unavailable, however e-mail and chat support are not impacted and remain available.

Release Notes: February 23rd – IA & UT

22 Feb 22
Craig Smith
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The site will be placed in maintenance on Wednesday, February 23rd, 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.

IOWA

  • MFS return not supporting pension exclusion up to $12,000 if TP eligible and SP not claiming on own return (Issue 6763)

UTAH

  • Retirement credit not calculating for TP born in 1952 (Issue 6766)

 

Release Notes: February 18th – CO, CT, IA, MI & NJ

17 Feb 22
Craig Smith
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The site will be placed in maintenance on Friday, February 18th, 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

  • State Sales Tax Refund calculating for a TP under 18 with no filing requirement (Issue 6716)

CONNECTICUT

  • High income return calculating more tax than is owed (Issue 6724)

IOWA

  • Child and Dependent Care Credit not calculating for a return (Issue 6722)

MICHIGAN

  • Erroneous validation error when filing 1040-CR as a renter (Issue 6746)

NEW JERSEY

  • Correct calc specific to the Property Tax Credit/Deduction (Issue 6743)

 


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NJ Property Tax Credit/Deduction [RESOLVED]

17 Feb 22
Craig Smith
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2/18/22 – This has been corrected with this mornings deployment.


After yesterday’s deployment (roughly 6am ET), an update was introduced that is causing the NJ Property Tax Credit/Deduction not to calculate for returns that may qualify. This issue may also calculate the property tax credit/deduction for a NJ return that does not qualify. This item has already been corrected and the fix will be pushed live Friday (2/18) morning. If you have any NJ returns at your site not calculating the NJ Property Tax Credit/Deduction and you believe they should qualify (or calculating when it should not be), hold these returns until after the Friday morning deploy. If, after the deployment, the NJ Property Tax Credit/Deduction is not calculating on a potentially impacted return, please contact support with your EFIN and Last 4 of the TP SSN. We apologize for this inconvenience.