Please take note of the following important message from the Ohio Department of Taxation.
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.
- Individual and School District Income Tax submissions transmitted during this time frame will be held at the IRS and will not be picked up/processed (with acknowledgements sent) by Ohio until 9/5/23.
- 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.
- Reminder: 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).
