Indiana would like to inform you of some corrections that many of you are receiving on your submissions. The following Business Rejection Rules have been adjusted within our system to allow many of your rejections to be resubmitted and accepted.

We are putting into production this evening (January 31)  a correction to our business rules S529-009 and S529-010 that will now allow the correct rounding to the nearest whole dollar.

We will in production this evening (January 31)  to our business rule SDEP-001-01. It has been discovered that we adjusted the rule behind the scenes erroneously and were not allowing any SSN’s/ITIN’s that start with 9. This should now be corrected and should function exactly as it did on a 2017 submission last year.

If you have any return in this rejected state, you can now resend them.  You can quickly make this determination by selecting the Rejects button (next to message center) .  This will list all of your returns that are both federal and state rejected.

The initial release of the 2018 state programs in the Practice Lab is now available. It is important to keep in mind when accessing 2018 state returns, many states have been delayed (and are still experiencing delays) in releasing final 2018 forms/instructions due to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and the impact tax reform has had on the IRS release of forms/schedules.  As you prepare 2018 state returns in the Practice Lab, you may still see 2017 calculations and/or PDF forms. As information continues to be released and finalized by the states, the Practice Lab will be updated to reflect the most recent information available.

2018 State Features Still to Come

• Update: 2018 implementation of State Short-View when listing a resident return in Federal Basic Information (Delivered to production 01/09/2019)
  • This is the screen that captures state specific data prior to beginning the Federal return
• Tweaks to the New 2018 State Prompts based on Federal return entries
  • Currently, some states with State Prompts are displaying non-applicable prompts
• Update: 2018 addition of State PDF View on the State Section grid (Delivered to production 01/08/2019)
• Update: 2018 implementation of state-calc updates based on sub-menu entries (Delivered to production 01/08/2019)
  • This is where the state refund generator updates in real-time based on entries made in the state sub-menus
• Need to update the “Cancel” button within state menus to reflect “Back” instead

Open Issues currently in development

#2310 (RESOLVED)– AL return is not loading properly and impacts the calculation of the return.  To prevent the state from automatically loading, do not enter a state in the residency box on the personal information page.  If you are in the situation where the return will not calculate, click on the personal section in the left navigation bar to break the calculation process, select State and delete and Alabama.

We received the below message from the Alabama Department of Revenue, MeF Coordinators office:

“We are experiencing a backlog of returns being processed. We are aware of the issue and we are processing returns as rapidly as possible.”

Alabama acknowledgements are being returned but at a slower pace. If your site has any outstanding Alabama state acknowledgements, we ask that you be patient as AL DOR works through their backlog of returns.

We received the following information from Colorado

Colorado is still having technical issues with retrieving and acknowledging returns submitted via MeF.  We apologize for the continued delay for returns filed since August 29th.

UPDATE (9/27/18): Statement from Kentucky “Kentucky MeF is once again operational.  We are currently retrieving submissions and processing them.  Acknowledgements will follow.  We appreciate the patience you have shown and know that we will work to clear the backlog as soon as possible.   We have not downloaded since 9/2, so it may take some time to clear.”

• If your site has any outstanding KY acknowledgements, they should begin appearing over the next few days.

UPDATE (9/24/18): Kentucky is expecting to begin processing acknowledgements early this week. They are currently in the process of updating their Production Certificate.

We received the following notification from Kentucky

Please be advise that we are nonoperational for individual acknowledgements.  They are working to resolve this issue.

• CALIFORNIA – 4/18/18

We received the following message from California:

“Greetings,

The IRS has allowed an additional day to file and pay taxes following IRS system issues that surfaced early on the April 17 tax deadline.  Because California taxpayers must generally complete their federal return before their California return can be filed, FTB will follow federal announcement IR-2018-100, April 17, 2018.  Individuals and businesses with a filing or payment due date of April 17 will now have until midnight on Wednesday, April 18th.  Taxpayers do not need to do anything to receive this extra time.

California provides an automatic six-month extension to October 15^th available to taxpayers who need additional time to file. Any tax due must still be paid by April 18^th.”

• IDAHO – 4/18/18

We received the following message from Idaho:

“BOISE, IDAHO — April 18, 2018 — The Idaho State Tax Commission is providing taxpayers an extra day to file and pay their 2017 income taxes. Taxpayers have until the end of Wednesday, April 18 to file and pay their income taxes without penalty. 

The IRS announced a one-day extension for filing federal returns due to problems with its e-filing system for much of the April 17 tax deadline. This also affected e-filing for Idaho returns. As a result, Idaho is following the extended federal deadline. The extended deadline applies to returns and payments filed by paper or electronically.”

• NEBRASKA – 4/18/18

We received the following message from Nebraska:

“On Tuesday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that it is providing taxpayers an additional day to file and pay their federal income taxes. Income tax filers with a filing or payment due date of April 17, 2018, will now have until midnight on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, to file and pay their federal individual income taxes. The Nebraska Department of Revenue is required by law to follow the federal due dates. Therefore, the deadline for Nebraska individual income tax returns and payments has also been extended to April 18, 2018″.

• OHIO – 4/18/18

We received the following message from Ohio:

“This email is to advise you that Ohio’s error code OHIND-046 “You are attempting to file an IT1040 return after the filing deadline, but did not indicate if you are filing federal extension form 4868.” was issued yesterday in error.  Users should not have been required to answer the question until today, the day after the filing deadline.

Impacted users should resubmit their Ohio returns and provide a yes or no answer to the question to indicate if they filed a federal extension.  A “no” (or false) answer will be accepted without penalty for returns filed today, or within the 5 day perfection period for rejected returns.  After today, a yes or no answer will still be required and accepted with standard consequences for late filing.

Ohio will be following the IRS and extending the due date to file and pay from 4/17 to 4/18.  However, even with the extended deadline, the federal extension question must be answered today.

We apologize for the inconvenience, please respond to this email with any questions.”

• SOUTH CAROLINA – 4/18/18

We received the following message from South Carolina:

“Following system outages, the IRS is allowing taxpayers an additional day (until April 18) to file federal income tax returns. The SCDOR will also allow taxpayers this additional day to file state income tax returns. As in the past, South Carolina’s electronic filing incentive gives individuals until May 1 to file state income tax returns electronically and pay any balance due without penalty.”

• UTAH – 4/18/18

We received the following message from Utah:

“The IRS announced a one-day extension for filing federal returns due to computer problems at the IRS. Similarly, the Utah State Tax Commission announced that it will allow an additional day for taxpayers to file and pay their 2017 state income taxes. Taxpayers will have until 11:59pm on Wednesday, April 18th, to both pay and file their state returns without penalty.”

The Georgia Department of Revenue sent the below messaging to software vendors this morning.

“The Georgia Department of Revenue is experiencing problems sending the acknowledgements for April 5^th and 6^th returns.  We apologize for the inconvenience this is causing you.  We are working diligently to resolve this issue and will advise you when acknowledgements are sent.”

For any sites with outstanding GA transmitted on April 5th and 6th, please do not resubmit impacted GA returns.

We have turned on the feature that allows you to enter the basic state information that is required for your specific state after you complete the Taxpayer’s personal information.

Note:  This will appear on new returns and returns where the state is not already completed as a resident state

Step 1:

Select the Taxpayer’s resident state.  Note:  If this is not selected the state page will not display and the state will not automatically calculate until you add it in the state section.

Step 2:

Click continue after completing the Personal information page.  If the resident state is not loaded on an existing return or if this is a new return, the state basic page will load

In this example of GA, I can answer the address question and enter an email address:  Note that [email protected] is a format template letting the user know the required format of the field.

Step 3 (optional)

Verify the information flowed to the state return.  The purpose of this field is that if no additional changes are needed for the state, you can enter the data at this point rather than editing the state in the state section.

This is an example of answering “No” to the address question and entering [email protected] as an email address.

Example of NC Basic page in Personal Informatio

Blog Posted 03/29/2018