4/12/22
Any outstanding 2020 acks should be returning over the next 24 hours.
We are aware many sites are waiting on acknowledgements from 2020 Federal and/or state transmissions. Our development staff is currently looking into this and hope to provide an update by mid-week this week.
Full Press Release from the Office of Governor Kay Ivey – Click Here
This is referring to the Federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and the impact on 2021 Alabama state returns for an increased federal income tax deduction.
The tax changes related to Act 2022-37 will be released live in TaxSlayer on Monday, March 28th. Alabama will begin accepting electronically filed returns with the latest schema on Tuesday, March 29th after 7:00am Central Time. From Sunday, March 27th at 9:00pm ET until Tuesday morning, we (TaxSlayer) will not send any Alabama state returns until they are ready to receive the latest schema.
Any Alabama returns electronically filed prior to this update WILL NOT need to amend. Alabama will automatically re-calculated impacted returns. For AL TP’s that filed their AL return using My Alabama Taxes or filed via paper prior to this update WILL need to amend their AL return to take advantage of this increased federal income tax deduction if applicable.
If you believe you will have AL returns at your site(s) that may be impacted by Act 2022-37, do not file them until Monday after our deployment.
3/12/22
Software vendors received the below update from MO regarding Direct Debit payments.
“I wanted to provide a quick update on the status of Missouri MeF Payments. Due to a few unexpected tax season issues, the development and testing on this process took much longer than we had anticipated. As of today, we officially have this ready to run in our production environment. We have identified all the accounts we did receive payments on. Of those accounts, we have pulled system data to identify the ones that have already remade their payment in some other manner. Missouri DOR will not be pulling those payments. All other past payments will still be pulled and are expected to hit customer accounts on approximately 3/18/22. A notification has gone out to customers alerting them of this.
Going forward, the Department will be initiating payments received on the requested effective date. Customers will want to allow up to 5 business days for the payment to be debited from their bank account.
Customers with questions can contact the Department at [email protected] or 573-751-8150.”
3/9/22
We have received additional information from MO DOR regarding returns already filed with direct debit information present. Basically, ignore everything we said below!
Beginning next week, MO DOR will begin processing returns with direct debit information present. This means that any impacted taxpayers should NOT make other payment arrangements. If a TP has already made their payment using another method, MO indicated they will first check their records to make sure a payment has not been made prior to processing the returns (to avoid a double payment by the TP). MO also stated they will communicate out to the impacted TP’s they will be processing their payments prior to actually processing the payment.
This post is specific to 2021 Missouri electronically filed returns through TaxSlayer Pro Online that filed as “E-file: Direct Debit” state return type.
At this time, 3/8/22, we advise to NOT use E-file: Direct Debit for MO returns. We have a work item for development to remove direct debit as an option for MO returns.
For 2021, MO advised vendors they would now be offering Direct Debit as a payment option for electronically filed returns. MO contacted vendors again closer to the beginning of filing season indicating internal issues were occurring with their direct debit payment system, but expected a resolution prior to the beginning of filing season. Given the timeline to resolve processing issues prior to the beginning of e-file, we elected to leave direct debit as a payment option in the application. At the time of this post, MO is unable to process direct debit payments sent with an e-filed return.
From the main page of your site, go to Reports > Other Data Reports > Management Reports. Run the “Pro Web Returns – Detail Return Report. Filter the “State Return Type” column by “Direct Debit” and the “State” column by “MO”. This will identify already filed MO Direct Debit returns. Impacted TP’s will need to mail in their payment using the voucher with their return prior to 4/18/22 or they visit the MO DOR website to make their payment or request a payment plan: MO Department of Revenue Payment Options
Update from NC DOR – 3/1/2022
NCDOR is proud to announce that our MeF system for IIT is now open for eFile.
Although we are open, please note that we are working through a significant backlog and hope to have all submissions acknowledged within the next few days.
Note: If a return gets this reject – NCD400-1160. Rejected Submission provided in StateSubmissionIdOrig is not found in System, all you need to do is resubmit the NC return.
Update from NC DOR – 2/16/2022
NC DOR released an update to software vendors indicating they expect to begin processing returns (sending acknowledgements) the week of February 28th. As NC works to process their backlog to send acknowledgements, it is possible you may receive an accepted ack and a rejected ack for a duplicate submission. The rejected ack for a duplicate submission can be ignored if an accepted acknowledgement was also received.
Due to recently enacted legislation impacting North Carolina tax returns, North Carolina will most likely not be ready to begin accepting e-files when the IRS opens on January 24th. Software vendors, including TaxSlayer, are now actively testing their software with North Carolina for the appropriate approvals. At this time, North Carolina returns can be prepared in our software, however, when accessing the e-file menu, you will encounter an e-file block for North Carolina. This block will be removed as the appropriate approvals are received.
Update On Impact of COVID-19 Relief Provisions on NC Income Tax Returns
2/28/22 – Impacted MT returns can be resubmitted.
If your site has a MT return with any of the listed reject codes in the blog title, the fix is scheduled to be deployed Monday morning. At this time, please hold impacted MT returns. This post will be updated after the fix has been deployed and tested.
You can now electronically file your 1040X returns.
(1) Complete the 2021 Amended Return
(2) Navigate to the efile section and you will see the following E-File selection page
(3) Select Amended tax return and click Continue
(4) The 1040X e-file section will be displayed. Note: The boxes in the upper right corner are not clickable, the light background option is the active option
Note: Do not change the Federal Return Type
(5) Select the Submission page
(6) Follow your site procedures for selecting applicable return tags
(7) Make sure the return is marked Complete
(8) Select Transmit Return (You must transmit the 1040X from the Submission page)
Update: We are in final internal testing of the 1040X flow.
You may see glimpses of the new flow, but the front end is not connected to the e-file process yet. We are working to hide this feature until the back end process is turned on to avoid confusion.
We are in the process of adding the ability to e-file the 1040X into the new e-file section.
We recommend you use a return tag to easily identify any 2021 1040X returns you need to electronically file.
We anticipate having this enabled by mid-February.
The below highlighted checkbox in E-file under “Optional Questions” should not be marked for VITA/TCE returns, even if you are preparing your own return through a VITA/TCE site. This checkbox can create validation issues for state returns because they will be looking for paid preparer information (i.e. PTIN or SSN) with the return. This checkbox should be ignored. If you filed a state return with this checkbox marked and it either validated or rejected, uncheck the box and resubmit the return.
