The site will be placed in maintenance on Wednesday, January 13th, 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.

ARIZONA

• Correct an issue where AZ was not providing the better of Standard or Itemized Deduction (Issue 5182)

CONNECTICUT

• Update the Federal Relation for Pension and Annuity subtraction to show taxable distribution, not gross distribution (Issue 5201)

MASSACHUSETTS

• Correct an issue causing a PDF not to generate if MA attached to Federal return (Issue 5188)

OREGON

• Correct an issue causing a PDF not to generate if OR attached to Federal return (Issue 5194)

SOUTH CAROLINA

• Correct an issue where the Tuition Tax Credit was limiting the tuition paid amount in error (Issue 5199)

WISCONSIN

• Correct an issue where Retirement Income Exclusion entries were not carrying to Schedule SB (Issue 5189)

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The special lookback rule, included in the most recent Coronavirus Relief Package, allows lower income individuals to use their earned income from 2019 to determine their Earned Income Tax Credit and the refundable portion of the Child Tax Credit in 2020. This provision is now included in TaxSlayer Pro Online within the Personal Information page, shown below.

The site will be placed in maintenance on Monday, January 11th, 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.

BACKEND UPDATES ONLY

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This is just a reminder that tax season support hours (below) do not begin until “Start New Return” is turned on in 2020. January 18th is tentatively scheduled to be that date, however, the opening date is subject to change.

• Monday – Friday: 8am-12am ET
• Saturday – Sunday: 8am-8pm ET

Until “Start New Return” is turned on in 2020 support hours are Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm ET.

The site will be placed in maintenance on Friday, January 8th, 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.

VITA/TCE SPRINGBOARD

• Updating Pro Online and Pro Desktop user guides on the VITA/TCE Springboard

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Update 1/7/2021: When completing the practice exercises in the Practice Lab and/or any certification exams, if the scenario does not provide details related to Economic Impact Payments (EIP) being received (either 1st or 2nd rounds), in the Recovery Rebate Credit page, go ahead enter amounts as if they received payments for all eligible individuals included in the scenario. This will allow the application to make the appropriate calculations based on inclusion of those entries.

Update 12/29/2020: The Practice Exercises are now updated using the current 2020 Practice Lab calculations available in the application to date. This time of year both the IRS and State Departments are continually releasing and finalizing forms, schedules, and instructions to software vendors. Regular updates will be implemented into the software as information is released/provided to software vendors.

Update 12/22/2020: The 2020 Practice Exercises will be uploaded to the Practice Lab the week of December 28th.

To help set expectations in the field, the practice exercises under Section 6 of the Practice Lab will be updated to 2020 within the next two weeks. This article will be updated when 2020 Practice Exercises are live in the Practice Lab. We wanted to provide extra time for additional updates to be applied to the 2020 software before updating the exercises. This time of year both the IRS and State Departments are continually releasing and finalizing forms, schedules, and instructions to software vendors. Regular updates will be implemented into the software as information is released/provided to software vendors.

At this time, the practice exercises are still based on the 2019 application.

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

2020 TAXSLAYER PRO ONLINE USER GUIDE

• Within the 2020 application (Helpful Tools menu), update the user guide to use the current 2020 edition

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The site will be placed in maintenance on Wednesday, January 6th, 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.

RECOVERY REBATE CREDIT

• Correct an issue where the Recovery Rebate Credit was not calculating when applicable (Issue 5178)
• Update page to include an input field for the second EIP received shown on Notice 1444-B (2020 Update)

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