Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Reminder - 1st Quarter Estimated Payments due 4/18

The Internal Revenue Service today reminds those who make estimated tax payments such as self-employed individuals, retirees, investors, businesses, corporations and others that the payment for the first quarter of 2022 is due Monday, April 18.

The 2022 Form 1040-ES, Estimated Tax for Individuals, can help taxpayers estimate their first quarterly tax payment.

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

RESOLVED: Important Information Concerning Form 8839 Qualified Adoption Expenses

Update: IRS has updated their schema as of March 21st.  Returns with an 8839 can be summitted.  

**************************

We are aware of an issue with the IRS schema concerning the maximum adoption credit allowed on Form 8839 Qualified Adoption Expenses.  Per the form and instructions, the maximum allowable credit is $14,440; however, the IRS schema has this value set as $14,400.  Any e-filed return that includes the maximum $14,440 will receive IRS Rejection X0000-005.  

At this time, please hold these returns until the IRS releases the next schema update which is tentatively scheduled for mid-March.

Note:  TaxWise will display a validation error if you attempt to create the e-file for these returns.

Monday, April 4, 2022

Resolved: Billing for e-signature temporarily paused

The issue with e-signature billing has been resolved and e-signature transactions since March 7th will be included on your next invoice. As such, you may see a larger than normal number transactions due to the pause in billing.   

Reminder: Usage of e-signature in TaxWise Online, TaxWise Desktop and ATX has not been impacted.

***********

On Monday, March 7 at 12:00 PM ET, we identified an error in the billing function of TaxWise Desktop and will complete unscheduled maintenance. As a result, e-signature billing for TaxWise Online, TaxWise Desktop and ATX will be temporarily unavailable. Once the billing maintenance has been completed, all billing events will be invoiced accordingly.

Usage of e-signature in TaxWise Online, TaxWise Desktop and ATX is not impacted.

Friday, March 25, 2022

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Client Accounting Suite/Premier version (CAS/P) 21.5 is available

  The 21.5 version of CAS/P is now available from the Solution Center or via the auto-update feature in CAS/P. It includes the following regulatory updates.

Regulatory Updates

The following regulatory information is now available for Client Accounting Suite and Client Accounting Suite Premier:

  • Federal Forms update
    • 2022 941, 941V and Worksheets are included.
    • 2022 943-X and 944-X are available in blank forms.
  • State Returns - Form updates for the following states are included in this update.
    • Alaska
    • Arizona
    • Delaware
    • Illinois
    • Maine
    • North Carolina
    • Oregon
    • Rhode Island
Software Updates
  • Export to Payroll Compliance for the 2022 941 has been enabled.  
The next scheduled release is June, 2022.

IRS Reject F2441-027 for Form 2441

Customers submitting an individual return containing Form 2441, Child and Dependent Care Expenses, may have encountered the following rejection message from the IRS.

“F2441-027 If Form 2441 is present in the return, then Schedule 3 (Form 1040) 'CreditForChildAndDepdCareAmt' and/or 'RfdblCrForChildAndDepdCareAmt' will have a non-zero value. ”


The IRS states that this rejection was in error.  Please recreate and retransmit any returns that received this rejection message.

Monday, March 21, 2022

Utah TC-65 Partnership Return Rejection Message due to Missing Bank Information

 Utah has announced that they have been rejecting partnership returns in error using the four rejection messages below.  They will release a fix for this issue later tonight.  Please hold any Utah TC-65 returns and do not retransmit any rejected returns until 12 Noon EST on March 22nd.

Rejection messages:

  • 65_21_180 Return Payment Amount : Value must be Positive
  • 65_21_181 Return Payment Account Holder Name : Must be Provided
  • 65_21_182 The requested payment date must be provided and the date cannot be more than 130 days in the future
  • 65_21_184 Return Payment Not IAT : Payment must not be an international ACH transaction