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Tuesday 20 October: CCH Software News - October 15, 2020, Extension Filing Deadline Dear CCH Customer: The extended due date for 2019 Individual (1040) and Corporation (1120) returns is Thursday, October 15, 2020. Information for electronically filing returns through the deadline is as follows. Timely Filed To be timely filed, CCH must receive your returns before 11:59 PM CDT on Thursday, October 15, 2020. Note: To avoid processing issues with the taxing authorities, we validate all returns before submission to the taxing authorities. If we stop returns for schema validation errors (Status 490), you must review and resubmit these returns in a timely fashion. Important: Linked state returns are not transmitted until the IRS acknowledgement is returned for the federal return. Because certain states such as Illinois, Oregon, and Wisconsin no longer honor the vendor timestamp as the state transmission time, we further recommend you release your state returns for transmission separately from the federal return, particularly if you cannot get the full return filed by 9:00 PM CDT. This allows the state return to transmit without the return of the federal acknowledgment. The easiest way to submit the state return separately from the federal return is to uncheck the federal return on the export window. Individual Timely Filing of Rejected Returns If the IRS rejects any of your returns, they will be considered timely filed if you resubmit them electronically and obtain approval from the IRS by Tuesday, October 20, 2020. If your returns continue to get rejected after this date, you will have five days to paper file the return to be considered timely filed. Please monitor the e-File Status System using the filter Not Accepted/All to verify that all returns have been transmitted and are accepted prior to 8:00 AM CDT on Tuesday, October 20, 2020. E-filed Returns Allowed After Tuesday, October 20, 2020 In addition to federal returns, the following state/city returns can be filed using our software year-round (current year plus two years), except for when the IRS shuts down their systems for 6-8 weeks in the middle of November to prepare for the new filing season: Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Michigan-Detroit Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Missouri-Kansas City Montana Nebraska New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York New York City North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Ohio City Form 37 (RITA) Oklahoma Oregon Oregon-Multnomah, Tri-County, Lane Transit Pennsylvania Philadelphia South Carolina Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin Michigan Cities filed on the Common Form, Ohio Cities not filed on Form 37, and Rhode Island returns will be transmitted through the IRS' annual maintenance shut-down sometime late-November. Additional communication will be sent once that information is provided by the taxing authorities. Corporation Timely Filing of Rejected Returns If the IRS rejects any of your Corporation returns, you have 10 calendar days to resubmit the return and obtain approval from the IRS. Based on information received for Corporation returns, the following states do not conform to the IRS 10-day perfection period for submitting rejected returns: Connecticut and Mississippi rejected returns. These states allow five business days to resubmit rejected returns and obtain approval. New York rejected returns. New York allows seven calendar days to resubmit rejected returns and obtain approval. Utah rejected returns. Utah allows 20 calendar days to resubmit rejected returns and obtain approval. New York City, Pennsylvania Form PA-RCT-101, Virginia, and West Virginia rejected returns. These states have no defined perfection period. Returns must be filed and approved by the due date to be considered timely. S Corporation and Partnership State Returns Based on information received for S Corporation returns that have an October 15 filing deadline, the following states do not conform to the IRS 10-day perfection period for submitting rejected returns: Vermont rejected returns. Vermont allows five calendar days to resubmit rejected returns and obtain approval. Utah rejected returns. Utah allows twenty calendar days to resubmit rejected returns and obtain approval. Virginia rejected returns. The state has no defined perfection period. Returns must be filed and approved by the due date to be considered timely. Based on information received for Partnership returns that have an October 15 filing deadline, the following states do not conform to the IRS 10-day perfection period for submitting rejected returns: Vermont rejected returns. Vermont allows five calendar days to resubmit rejected returns and obtain approval. Virginia rejected returns. Virginia has no defined perfection period. Returns must be filed and approved by the due date to be considered timely. Paper Returns If the IRS rejects any of your returns, the return does not fall into an e-file mandate, and you choose to file a paper return, the deadline is as follows. The paper return must be postmarked by the latter of the following: The due date of the return (including extensions) or 10 calendar days after the date the IRS last gave notification that the return was rejected Sincerely, Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting, North America

but we have to wait for the super secret PIN to come via snail mail. Why they can't just email it to you or give you a pop up screen to print when you get it - like when you get your EIN.

Setting up EFTPS is much easier than it used to be.

Call the Taxpayer Advocate Service, this is the kind of stuff they help to resolve.

The question is, for 2020, will they able to file a return and receive the stimulus payment as a refundable credit.