The site will be placed in maintenance on Tuesday, 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.

FORM 7202

• Applicable SE income is displaying Line 31 from Schedule C instead of Line 6 of Schedule SE within the 7202 application page (Issue 5432)

MASSACHUSETTS

• Update text within Basic Information regarding name or address change since filing prior year return (Issue 5588)

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

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

AMENDED RETURN

• Update the schema so amended returns can be e-filed (Issue 5517)

CALIFORNIA

• Add the ability to check the box on Form 3849, Line 28 (Issue 5578)

CONNECTICUT

• Allow the ability to adjust the value carried to CT-1040, Line 43 specifically for Railroad Benefits (Social Security Equivalent) (Issue 5527)

HAWAII

• Update Medical and Dental Expense threshold to 7.5% from 10% (Issue 5587)

MICHIGAN

• Correct an issue where an ineligible TP was receiving the Home Heating Credit (Issue 5568)

VERMONT

• Contribution to VT Veteran’s Fund is carrying to Green Up Fund line in error (Issue 5566)

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4/15/21

Maryland, as of 4/15/21, has implemented the new schema to support Form 502LU and other applicable changes. Taxpayers with Form 502LU on their MD returns should now be able to e-file those returns.

See information regarding the Maryland Relief Act here.

Maryland recently signed into law (February 15th, 2021) their RELIEF Act. With this recently passed legislation, a new subtraction form has been introduced (Form 502LU) to account for subtracting unemployment income from being taxed on the Maryland return. This form has been released by Maryland to software vendors and has been implemented into the TaxSlayer software. However, Maryland has not yet released the new schema to support this form via e-file. For this reason, if Form 502LU is on a return for your client(s), you will see an e-file block preventing you from e-filing the Maryland return at this time (the Federal return can still be e-filed).

Maryland has indicated the new schema will not be made available until early March. Once the schema has been issued and implemented into our software, the e-file block for impacted returns will be removed and those returns can be e-filed at that time. We will update this blog post once the new schema has been implemented. If a taxpayer has unemployment income reported on their Federal return, using Form 502LU, it will be automatically subtracted from the Maryland return without the need for manual adjustment.

Maryland has also stated that for any returns already filed that can now take advantage of this unemployment subtraction, an amended MD return must be prepared and filed.

3/1/21 – This issue has been resolved.

Issue 5595 was opened to address an issue within Oregon returns. Some returns that have an Oregon return added is causing the calc to break, meaning the Summary/Print page will not load, also creating issues when attempting to access the OR return and the e-file menu. This issue has been corrected and the fix should be deployed early next week (most likely Monday or Wednesday).

Software vendors received the below message from Missouri today. If your site(s) has any MO returns with the mentioned Reject Code, please hold these returns and do not resubmit until we update this post indicating MO has resolved this issue.

“Due to an issue identified with our the new MO business rule MO1040-0022, we are in the process of testing a fix to this rejection.  The rule is causing certain returns to reject when a taxpayer has Taxable Social Security but does not meet the requirements for the Social Security Exemption.  We are currently testing a fix on this and hope to have the fix in production next week.  I will update when this is available.“

3:10 pm ET:  MFA via text messaging has been restored

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Our engineers have been made aware of an issue our MFA service provider is experiencing with sending MFA Text Messages. They are currently engaged with the service provider working towards alternative MFA methods until this issue is resolved. MFA via e-mail does not appear to be impacted at this time.

2/26/2021

Connecticut has resolved their issue with the IRS. CT e-files can resume at this time. If you have any CT returns rejected with Reject Code: Rule Number – State-001, they can be resubmitted at this time.

2/25/2021

Software vendors received the below message from Connecticut.

“It appears that the IRS is rejecting all Connecticut Returns for the reason of: IRS ERROR MESSAGE: The agency to which a State Submission is filed must participate in the Fed/State program.  Connecticut has contacted the IRS to figure out what is causing these rejects.  Until this issue is resolved, Connecticut is recommending that you do not submit any MeF submissions to Connecticut.  I will send out an email once this issue has been resolved.”

Note: At this time, we have turned off the ability to e-file CT returns per CT guidance.

The site will be placed in maintenance on Friday, February 26th, 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.

1099-NEC

• Update 1040 PDF Summary page to display as 1099-NEC instead of 1099-MISC (Issue 5580)

CALIFORNIA

• Form 3849, Line 6 marking YES when it should be NO based on return entries – does not impact calc (Issue 5562)

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