10/14/23
Maine has resumed processing returns/acknowledgements.
10/13/23 – Update from Maine with more details about the ack delays.
“Maine Revenue Services has received a lot of questions regarding the stoppage of MeF processing. I received word late last night that this also includes paper filing as well. Here is what I did find out last night and I will keep you updated with any new information that I receive.
- MRS will still pull all MEF returns from the IRS daily, this includes 1040, 1120, 941P, and 1041
- MRS will still accept paper returns
- There is no need to change the way you would have originally filed a return
- All returns are processed by date received – which is the date they are pulled from the IRS or received by mail
- The stoppage is not related to MeF or paper forms, but an internal processing error on 1040 returns which we are feverishly correcting
MRS’s MeF process ties all processing of 1120, 1040, 941P, and 1041 together until the submissions have made it into the internal system which is why this is affecting all of our MeF profiles. We are unable to individually turn of a single profile. For the paper forms, those are sorted by tax type then processed. All other tax types other than 1040 will continue to get processed normally if they are paper filed.
MRS sincerely apologizes for this inconvenience.”
The below message was received this afternoon from Maine Revenue Services. Maine has not indicated an ETA for when acknowledgements will resume processing.
“Maine Revenue Services executives have decided to stop all MeF processing due to internal return processing issues not related to MeF.“