Forms Delay

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Per Quick Alerts from IRS.gov the following forms will not be available for electronic filing until late 2/09

ATTN: Software Developers, Return Transmitters and Authorized IRS e-file Providers/EROs
The following seven forms will be disabled until late February 2009 with new Error Reject Code 0120:

Form 3468, Investment Credit

Form 5884-A, Credits for Affected Midwestern Disaster Area Employers

Form 6478, Alcohol and Cellulosic Biofuel Fuels Credit

Form 8820, Orphan Drug Credit

Form 8900, Qualified Railroad Track Maintenance Credit

Form 8909, Energy Efficient Appliance Credit

Form 8912, Credit for Clean Renewable Energy and Gulf Tax Credit Bonds

Error Reject Code 0120 will read as follows:

Form 1040 o The following forms cannot be e-filed at this time; Form 3468, Investment Credit, Form 5884-A, Credits for Affected Midwestern Disaster Area Employers, Form 6478, Alcohol and Cellulosic Biofuel Fuels Credit, Form 8820, Orphan Drug Credit, Form 8900, Qualified Railroad Track Maintenance Credit, Form 8909, "Energy Efficient Appliance Credit and Form 8912, Credit for Clean Renewable Energy and Gulf Tax Credit Bonds.

Form 8835, Renewable Electricity Production Credit, will be disabled until late February 2009 with Error Reject Code 0044.

A subsequent QuickAlert will be issued when these forms are available for electronic filing.

Additionally, Form 8854, Initial and Annual Expatriation Information Worksheet, will be disabled for the entire 2009 Filing Season with Error Reject Code 0044.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
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This has been an IRS e-file QuickAlert

Sandy

[taxea]

I love these IRS alert emails...they really give us a heads up on the things that the IRS is making changes on and forms they are adding to the package. taxea

[erchess]

I don't understand why the IRS rejects certain forms from efiling. If they can't check a form electronically let them either print it (and the whole return if they want) and check as a paper return or let them set it aside electronically and process later.

I am entirely in sympathy with their not releasing refunds until returns are entirely checked and I think it would be good if they could let us know so we could let clients know when refunds are being held up.It seems like if a given form might cause a delay in refund they refuse to take that form electronically. I fail to see how either their interests, our interests, or clients' interests benefit from this policy and yet I must be missing some benefit to someone that is perceived by the IRS to exist.

[taxea]

It's like anything else...everything is going electronic or mechanical. What is the sense of having progress if we don't use it. There is just not enough manpower to go through every return by hand.

The forms that are listed obviously are forms that require changes...some changes cannot be made until the congress decides what the current law is going to be.


taxea

[David1980]

I don't understand why the IRS rejects certain forms from efiling. If they can't check a form electronically let them either print it (and the whole return if they want) and check as a paper return or let them set it aside electronically and process later.

I think that's the direction they are going with Mef. Where the form can be sent in PDF format as a fall-back if there's something wrong with the XML. I can't wait.

[FEDUKE404]

One possibility

My guess is that since an e-filed return can, in theory, be "processed" within a very narrow time frame the IRS is not allowing an e-filed return with the questionable forms to be submitted.

With a paper return, the same type of return can just be tossed into a basket until things eventually settle down.

Oh well, so much for today's explanation of how the guvment works..........

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