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The below message was shared to software vendors from the Ohio Department of Taxation.

“As shared with our partners previously, Ohio’s Individual and School District Income Taxes are transitioning into our new NextGen system, OTS (Ohio Tax System) on 9/5/23.  In preparation for the migration to our new system, we will be shutting off the processing of MeF returns for only Individual and School District Income Tax submissions starting the very early morning hours of Monday 8/21/23 through Tuesday 9/5/23. 

What you will need to do

1. You can continue to transmit Individual and School District Income Tax submissions during this time frame but they will be held at the IRS and will not be picked up/processed (with acknowledgements sent) by Ohio until 9/5/23. 
2. We request that you please place messaging in your software to advise your users of this time frame
   1. Advise that returns submitted electronically during this timeframe will be credited with the correct submission date (i.e. IRS submission date) but the returns will not be processed and any acceptance/rejection messaging will not be sent until 9/5/23.
      1. Also, include a reminder that there is no benefit in printing and mailing the returns instead of waiting for these to be processed on 9/5/23.  Paper returns can take 8 to 10 weeks to be processed.

NOTE – this affects Individual and School District Income Tax submissions only.  This DOES NOT affect any other Ohio taxes submitted electronically (i.e. Muni, Fiduciary or Pass Through Entity).“