The site will be placed in maintenance on Tuesday, April 7th beginning at 5:00am ET to release the below update. Note that deployments may take up to 3 hours to complete. During this time, access to the program may be limited.

MARYLAND

• Correct an issue where exempt interest dividends not pulling to Form RTC-1 (Issue 4785)
• Correct a display issue where the Apartment # is printing twice on Form RTC-1 (Issue 4786)
• Correct a mapping issue where Lines 20 and 29 displayed opposite answers than marked in program for Form RTC-1 (Issue 4787/4790)

NEW YORK

• Correct a mapping issue where the “Not My Dependent” flag in Dependent menu was not picked up on NY return (Issue 4796)

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

4/9/2020

Software vendors received the below messaging from New York this afternoon. They state they can begin accepting New York returns with direct debit dates scheduled to process after 4/15/2020 on Monday, April 13th.

“NYS has completed its testing of the Extended due dates.  The code will be in our production environment tomorrow Friday 4/10/2020.  We ask that you hold off from submitting your files until Monday 4/13/2020, so that we may ensure the code migrated correctly on our end.”

Software vendors received the below messaging from New York this morning. Their MeF system is not currently able to process payments received with a Direct Debit Date past 4/15/2020. For any taxpayers wishing to make a payment with their New York return past 4/15/2020, we recommend holding these returns until this post has been updated. We recommend using Return Tags to help identify impacted returns at your site(s).

“Submissions with ACH request dates after 4/15/2020. This change has not been implemented in production yet so any return received with an ACH request date past 4/15/2020 will be processed on 4/15/2020. We will send a follow up email to all developers when we are able to properly process these submissions and can warehouse payments out until 7/15/2020.”

Please see this page from the NY Department of Taxation on how to cancel or reschedule a payment – Click Here

Software vendors received the below information from Nebraska.

I already filed my 2019 income tax return before April 15, 2020 and scheduled a payment for April 15, 2020. Will this payment be automatically rescheduled to July 15, 2020?

No. The payment will not be automatically rescheduled to July 15, 2020. If you do nothing, the payment will be made on the date you chose. If you need to change the scheduled payment date or cancel your payment you will follow the instructions noted below.

If you scheduled your payment through:

• E-pay (Using DOR’s website)

Log into your e-pay account to change their scheduled payment date or to cancel the payment.

• EFW (made with the return)

At least two business days prior to your scheduled payment, contact the DOR by phone at 800-742-7474 (NE and IA) or 402-471-5729 to cancel the payment. The scheduled payment date cannot be changed. DOR will need the primary taxpayer’s full Social Security number for individual income tax payments, or a Nebraska ID number for business income tax payments, and the payment amount.

• Credit Card

Contact Official Payments Corporation by phone at 800-2PAY-TAX, (800-272-9829) to change the scheduled payment date or to cancel the payment. DOR recommends that cancelled e-pay, EFW, and credit card payments be rescheduled using the DOR’s E-Pay system.

The site will be placed in maintenance on Tuesday, April 7th beginning at 5:00am ET to release the below update. Note that deployments may take up to 3 hours to complete. During this time, access to the program may be limited.

KENTUCKY

• Correct a display issue on KY Schedule P, Part I (Issue 4771)

MICHIGAN

• Correct an issue where the qualifying question for Home Heating Credit was defaulting to YES, but not setting the needed flag to calculate (Issue 4779)

NEW JERSEY

• Correct a display issue where the amended return explanation not carrying to NJ amended PDF (Issue 4780)

RETIREMENT SAVINGS CONTRIBUTION CREDIT

• Correct an error where the applicable credit was not calculating for a TP that CAN BE but IS NOT claimed as a dependent (Issue 4327)

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

4/7/2020 – Issue 4779 is now resolved.

4/6/2020 – The fix for Issue 4779 is scheduled to be deployed on the morning of Tuesday, April 7th.

On 4/1/2020 Issue 4779 was opened to address an issue where in some cases, the Home Heating Credit was not calculating when applicable, or generating the necessary PDF forms. Until this issue is resolved, sites with impacted MI returns can do the following…

The root cause of the issue, is when first accessing the Home Heating Credit menu, the first question below is defaulting to YES. When providing the necessary data then saving to exit the state return, the flag is not getting set to calculate the credit.

What you need to do: Change the “YES” to “NO” for the above question and exit the state return to save. Then, edit the MI return, change the “NO” back to “YES”, provide the needed information for the credit, and exit the state return as normal. This will set the needed flag to calculate the credit if applicable and generate the needed PDF forms.

Software vendors received the below guidance from Utah.

“Greetings from Utah,

I hope you are all doing well.

Please advise your taxpayers to contact the Utah State Tax Commission at 801-297-2200 or 1-800-662-4335 or send an email to [email protected] to request to have their payment cancelled if it is scheduled for April 15 or earlier. 

We are working on adding a message to our main web page https://tax.utah.gov/ that details this same information.

If your software does not allow them to schedule another payment, or you do not support direct debit with Utah, you can refer them to Taxpayer Access Point (https://tap.tax.utah.gov/TaxExpress/_/) to schedule an e-check (no fee) or credit card payment (with fee).“

Posted 4/1/2020

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service today announced that Social Security beneficiaries who are not typically required to file tax returns will not need to file an abbreviated tax return to receive an Economic Impact Payment. Instead, payments will be automatically deposited into their bank accounts.

“Social Security recipients who are not typically required to file a tax return do not to need take an action, and will receive their payment directly to their bank account,” said Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin.

The IRS will use the information on the Form SSA-1099 and Form RRB-1099 to generate $1,200 Economic Impact Payments to Social Security recipients who did not file tax returns in 2018 or 2019. Recipients will receive these payments as a direct deposit or by paper check, just as they would normally receive their benefits.

Direct Link: Click Here

The site will be placed in maintenance on Thursday, April 2nd beginning at 5:00am ET to release the below update. Note that deployments may take up to 3 hours to complete. During this time, access to the program may be limited.

MINNESOTA

• Correct a calculation error where the Standard Deduction was being applied to a Nonresident Alien MN return (Issue 4766)
• Correct a calculation error where M1PR Worksheet 1, Line 1 as not being calculated by 17% (Issue 4770)

SCHEDULE OI (1040-NR)

• Correct a display issue where “19(1)” treaty for Indonesia was displaying as “21(1)” on the PDF (Issue 4750)

VERMONT

• Correct a display issue where information was not populating on the 8879-VT (Issue 4765)

VIRGINIA

• Correct an issue where an entry inside the VA program was not carrying to 760PY-ADJ, Line 4 (Issue 4747)

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