A product deployment for TaxSlayer Pro Online will occur Wednesday, March 15th, 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 2106

• 2106 remove “above” from the text “Commuting miles included in total miles above” (Issue 9842)

Schedule B

• Schedule B display issue when more entries than line items on the print (Issue 9848)

Minnesota

• MN standard deduction for TP claimed as a dependent is not including scholarship income (Issue 9937)

Oklahoma

• OK 500-A fini check when “Yes” selected for recipient’s address same as Federal (Issue 9866)

Iowa

• IA filing status 3 – Form 130 showing TP’s name and SSN when SP had other state income / making manual entry for SP creates additional 130 for TP (Issue 9884)

Pennsylvania

• PA Schedule RK-1 / NRK-1 print issue (Issue #9891)
• PA Sch E manual entry for depletion not allowable still carries to the print (Issue #9908)

Michigan

• part year MI-1040CR line 33 not using annualized household resources / incorrect percentage on line 43 from Table B  (Issue 9897)

New Hampshire

• NH 2023 DP-10-ES line 4 calculating 5%, should be 4% (Issue 9905)

Massachusetts

• MA Sch SC line 35 Interest Subsidy missing entry for Total interest actually paid on the loan or betterment  (Issue 9863)

Virginia

• MFJ Fed, VA MFS for TP, Other Income for SP from Fed pulling to VA (Issue 9831)

2/28/2023:  We have identified a situation where your prior year taxpayers are getting the following message after completing their initial login from your site specific URL  We are in the process of working on a solution for deployment.  We recommend the taxpayer wait until a solution has been deployed rather than create a new account.  Creating a new account will not give them the option to carry forward the information from the prior year return.  This is not impacting all taxpayers.  You may want to have them try to open up a new browser instance and try the URL again.

SC-F1040-007: Category: Missing Document | Severity: Reject If Schedule C (Form 1040) Line 33c checkbox ‘OtherClosingInventoryMethodInd’ is checked, then “Other Method Used To Value Closing Inventory Statement” [OtherMethodUsedToValueClosingInventoryStatement] must be attached.

• What to do? Refer to this article HERE.

F8962-070: The efile database indicates that Form 8962 or a binary attachment with description containing “ACA Explanation” must be present in the return.

• What to do? Open the return, select Health Insurance, answer Yes and verify all Form 8962 questions area answered, exit the return and re-transmit.  The IRS will not accept this return electronically if it does not include form 8962.

IND-202: Category: Missing Data | Severity: Reject and Stop’VendorControlNum’ in ‘FilingSecurityInformation’ in the Return Header must have a value.

• What to do? Contact VITA/TCE support at [email protected] for assistance and provide your EFIN. This reject occurs for new sites that have transmitted prior year returns and are rejected with IND-202. We need to create a record for your site for the prior years in our database.

We are aware that the site just slowed down.  We have opened an emergency ticket

By default the “Mark tax return as complete” stays selected when the return has been IRS Rejected.  If your site process is to remove the completed checkmark, you must select “Mark tax return as complete” and “Ready for retransmit” for it to be available to transmit from the Transmission menu

Update 12:48pm EST:  This has been resolved.  If you continue to see the application spinning do the following:

• Log out
• Open a new instance of your browser, not just a new tab
• Log back in

This gives you a total refresh

Update 12:34pm EST:  We have narrowed the issue down to the server pool that renders access to the state returns.  We are actively working to resolve this.

We have opened a critical ticket to determine why some people are getting a constant spinning in the application.

Suggestion:  Open another instance of the browser and login from the new instance.  This seems to be isolated to a server, so we are checking the health of all servers.

Scenario: When I look at the assigned questions under Configuration>>Question Templates I see duplicate questions.

Reasons:

• At some point the Group Admin that originally assigned the questions, deleted the questions before unassigning them to your site
• The group that assigned the questions changed them to be year specific

Solution: These cannot be removed from the “Assigned list”. Verify that there are no duplicate questions in the 2022 tax returns.

VITA/TCE support CANNOT remove these.

E-filing prior year returns is now live. The IRS allows the current + 2 prior years for electronic file. For this filing season, this means 2022, 2021, and 2020 Federal returns can be electronically filed. Most states with the exception of Rhode Island also allow prior year state e-files.