NEW submission ID for Efiling-DCN OBSOLETE

[JON]

I understand better now!!

The local IRS liason officer explained it this way. Depending on your software you have to be able to show the submission number assigned to the return. She said if you can get a print out at the end of the year that shows the taxpayer and the number just retain that for the three years, unless you want to record it on all of the 8879s that is an alternative. She also said that the number is created everytime you compute the E file. So if you change numbers on the return and recompute the E file it will change the number.

I think I can get the ACKs with the submission number at the end of the year. I do not know if you have to print it, but I may do that. I was wondering why there was a number on the 8879s. I guess I am still wondering.. Per the liason DCNs were always a legacy feature, even last year and now they are not anything..

[S T]

Thanks Taxxcpa for the info on Drake - being new to Drake - I was not sure how to obtain the SID info, however it is on my ACKS, and I do keep those for each client file PDF.

The report you describe would be good as well!

Sandy

[David1980]

Based on actual returns for this year, the SID remains as originally generated/printed even though it does not correspond to the date actually transmitted. Returns have been (federally) accepted and subsequently submitted to state.

It does appear California at least rejects the returns if the Julian date portion of the submission ID is more than two days prior to the actual processing date. So if filing California returns, you wouldn't want to generate the submission ID more than a couple days prior to efiling.

[Bees Knees]

ProSeries does not print the SID on the 8879 or the 9325, but you can print it out on a separate sheet after the return is accepted. Go to the accepted e-filed returns listed from the e-file home page, scroll to the right, and you will see in one of the columns the SID for both the federal and the state.

I have been printing those out and keeping them with the 8879 if IRS ever comes asking for them. I do not give it to the client unless the client asks for it (I give the client the 9325 which does not contain the SID).