In observance of the Fourth of July, TaxSlayer offices will be closed on Monday, July 5th. Normal off-season hours will resume on Tuesday, July 6th at 8:00am ET.

The site will be placed in maintenance on Thursday, July 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.

MARYLAND

• Physical Address listed in Basic Information, if different than Federal address, not pulling to Form 502 (Issue 6225)

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

The Nebraska Department of Revenue released a statement today regarding the treatment of returns impacted by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), specifically around Unemployment Exclusions Adjustments. Read the full statement here.

“The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) was signed into law by President Biden on March 11, 2021. ARPA includes a retroactive provision making the first $10,200 per taxpayer of 2020 unemployment benefits nontaxable for taxpayers with modified federal adjusted gross income (AGI) of less than $150,000. For married, filing jointly taxpayers, each spouse may exclude up to $10,200.

The Nebraska Department of Revenue (DOR) will automatically adjust the AGI and recalculate the tax on the returns of individuals who electronically filed their returns with Nebraska prior to April 1, 2021 to the extent that DOR can determine that the unemployment compensation was not excluded from income. There are exceptions noted below.

If this adjustment is made to your return, you will receive a letter from DOR notifying you of the correction. Please review the adjustment made and your filed return when you receive this notification and consider if an amended return is needed. Please attach a copy of your notice of adjustment from the IRS or a copy of the federal amended return if you file a Nebraska amended return.

If any of the following apply, DOR will not automatically adjust your return to exclude any unemployment that should be excluded under ARPA. To exclude this income, you must file an Amended Nebraska Individual Income Tax Return, Form 1040XN, to receive the adjustment that you are entitled to:

• Returns filed on paper;
• Returns filed using NebFile;
• Partial-year or nonresident returns;
• A Nebraska amended return was previously filed for tax year 2020;
• If the box on line 29 on your Nebraska return was checked for using federal tax; or
• Your return was filed after March 31, 2021, and did not claim the exclusion for unemployment compensation.

DOR will not automatically adjust credits that may be impacted by the reduction to federal AGI. Taxpayrs who become eligible for any credits or any increase in credit amounts due to this adjustment must file an Amended Nebraska Individual Income Tax Return, Form 1040XN, to claim or change a credit.”

The site will be placed in maintenance on Tuesday, June 29th, 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.

UTAH

• Add “E-file: Direct Debit” as a return type

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6/28/21 – 10:01am ET

The issues reported below have been resolved. Please reach out to support if you continue to see any oddities.

6/28/21 – 8:21am ET

We are currently investigating reports of users having issues with accessing tax returns from Client List in the 2018-2020 application years.

We are currently investigating why 2018 PDF’s are not generating at this time.

The site will be placed in maintenance on Thursday, June 17th, 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.

MINNESOTA

• M1PR not giving credit when rent is for mobile home only and not also rent for the lot (Issue 6200)

OHIO

• Update line references in OH input page for Unreimbursed Medical and Health Care Worksheet (Issue 6193)

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Update: 6/10/21

Maryland is now able to accept returns impacted by Reject Codes Form 502-01730-020 and Form 502-01730-012. Impacted returns can now be resubmitted.

If any Maryland returns received the below reject codes yesterday (4/15) and this morning prior to 7am ET, they can be resubmitted at this time. This relates to MD EIC updates and the latest schema was not released into production until this mornings deployment.

• Form 502-01730-012
• Form 502-01730-020