RESOLVED 3/1/2018 – 3:54 pm ET
UPDATE 3/1/2018 – 2:40 PM ET — The correction has been finalized on our internal system. We will be making the correction shortly. This should have no impact on users.
UPDATE: 3/1/2018 – 12:40PM ET – The correction has been made to the code. We are in the process of deploying the changes to our internal systems for testing purposes.
UPDATE: 3/1/2018 – 10:35am ET – This appears to be impact any date entry field for any state return menu where they are available. We are actively investigating.
We have opened Issue #1442 to review an item that popped up today with preparing a Resident New Jersey return. Within the Resident New Jersey return, specifically the “Basic Information” menu, at the bottom of the screen, there is the option to enter Part-Year residency dates.
The Issue:
If preparing a Resident NJ return and Part-Year residency dates are not needed, when clicking “Save” to continue from the Basic Information menu, a validation shows as “Invalid Format Date” for Part-Year residency even though dates have not been entered and are not required for the Resident NJ return.
What to do now:
At this time, in order to save the other data entered within the Basic Information menu and continue with preparing the Resident NJ return, we recommend entering residency dates of “01/01/2017” to “12/31/2017”. We also recommend holding impacted NJ returns until this blog post has been updated as RESOLVED. At that time, access any impacted Resident NJ returns and remove the Part-Year residency dates entered. We recommend using a Return Tag to mark impacted NJ returns.