Discussion:Energy Credit Forms Finalized

forms are going to be finalized through the IRS. Also energy credit form. Thank You In advance

"This problem may occur if Form 5695 is part of the return. This problem will be fixed in an update expected to be available February 21, 2007. To fix this problem, efile the federal return separately from the state return. This is allowed for all states except Hawaii and Oklahoma. The states of North Dakota and South Carolina only let you file your state return separately from your federal return once your federal return has been accepted by the IRS."

Earlier tonight, I found a note on the Intuit site that the update should be available on Feb 9th for the Form 5695 problem. That link can be found in the Error 0151 message at the ProSeries General discussion on Intuit's site. So I don't know which date is correct.

I've been telling clients that I should be able to efile their returns (when Form 5695 is included) on 02/03. Now I'm gonna have to find the time to call them all and tell them it will be either the 9th or the 21st. What next? I haven't had any time to participate here and probably won't have much time until after 04/15, but I wanted to let you all know about this problem.

Error Reject Code 151 or 156 and Form 5695

So, I guess we'll just have to wait and see if the problem is fixed on the 9th or the 21st. Either way, it's completely unacceptable to me that an Intuit bug in the program cannot be fixed much sooner than this.

The update now says that 4136 and 8606 are delayed until 02/10.

5695 still says ready to efile, even though it will be rejected by the IRS.

2210 is delayed until 2/22.

Also, I just tried to efile a 1310 with a court-appointed rep, and ProSeries is telling me I can't efile Form 1310, when Part I, box B is checked and to send in the paper returns. I had it set up to file 8453 and attach 1310 and the court-appointment document.

BL - Who should unhappy preparers call?

This is the first year since 1994 that I'm feeling very frustrated with the ProSeries Pro program...more so than other years when there have been bugs in the program.

Also, the navigation in the Form 1099-R worksheet is still as screwed up as it was last year.

The bug in the Michigan program where it includes the prior year property tax refund in household income on Form MI1040CR hasn't been fixed yet.

Yesterday, I had a taxable Michigan refund that was not included on Form 1040, line 10.

I know this isn't the place to post bugs, but like David said, I'm also not fond of going to the Intuit site, and since this is Intuit's site, I'm just posting things here.

Anyway, I fixed the two 1310s I had (to file manually) and called the five 5695 clients. All were understanding and said okay, except for one client who wanted me to delete the 5695 (since he's getting a refund of $7,200), so I reprinted his revised return and may do an amended return for the 5695.

What's so frustrating is that I could have gotten at least four returns done in the two hours that I had to spend messing around with these delayed forms this morning.

Teller at the bank said she'd filed already. "No Energy credit form, I bet?" "No, simple return."

Customer Service Messages for EFIN XXXXXX

Important information about temporary acknowledgement delays: Due to coordination with the IRS cut-over of electronic filing systems to support returns impacted by the Extender Bill, all returns filed to the Intuit Electronic Filing Center the evening of Jan 2 and the morning of Jan 3 were sent to the IRS after the 11am drains on Saturday Jan 3. All returns have been transmitted to the IRS and acknowledgements are expected to start coming back within a few hours of the IRS afternoon drains which range from 3-6 pm Pacific depending on the service center your returns are filed to. We apologize for acknowledgement turnaround times being slower than normal due to today's cut over.

(Notice how Intuit thinks today is January 3rd...) :)