1040 Interim Release Notes for 19-8.5F

Date of Release: 10/1/2021

* New for This Release: Federal
* New for This Release: State
* Open Issues: Federal
* Open Issues: State
* Closed Issues: Federal
* Closed Issues: State
* Prior Interim Releases

This document provides interim release notes and known issues for 1040, version 19-8.5F. This also includes cumulative addressed issues for prior interim updates to the 19-7F release.

Important Information

Click CARES Act: Description of Changes for a summary of the changes made to this and other tax applications due to the CARES Act and projected release dates for those changes.

Click FormSource Queries to Determine Stimulus Eligibility to learn how to use FormSource queries to determine stimulus check eligibility.

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New E-file Reject Help System

We have added a new feature to help you discover why an e-file was rejected by the jurisdiction. The feature is currently available for federal rejects for 1040, 1041, 1120, 1065 and 990 entity types. To access the new feature, open the reject as you normally do from either the View Info screen or the E-file Status Report screen . You will now see Click for more information at the end of the Error message. Click the link to open the new e-file help system that will give details on the error, the cause of the error, and the solution. We will continue to add content to the help system to provide you with a better experience and faster solutions.

CARES Act: Impact on 1040 for 2019 and 2020

The following CARE Act items are for Tax Year 2020 and do not impact the 2019 tax return:

Individual Recovery rebate/credit
Child Tax Credit of $500
No 10% additional tax for coronavirus-related retirement plan distributions
RMD requirement waived for 2020
$300 above-the-line charitable deduction
Modification of limitations on individual cash charitable contributions during 2020
Increase in limits on contributions of food inventory
Tax-excluded education payments by an employer temporarily include student loan repayments.

New for This Release: Federal

Forms Status

View the list of federal forms at this URL:
https://www.riahelp.com/html/2019/reports/fedforms/1040_Federal_Form_Status.pdf

New for This Release: State

State Releases

Please see the information on state release status at Home > State Availability > 1040 in the RS Browser.

Open Issues: Federal

Please see Customer Center for up-to-date information on post-release known issues.

Open Issues: State

Please see Customer Center for up-to-date information on post-release known issues.

District of Columbia

We are aware of an issue where Form D-40ES vouchers do not calculate automatically.

Closed Issues: Federal

Form 1040-X

19-8.5F We updated Form 1040-X with the 2021 revised version.

Closed Issues: State

Minnesota

19-8.5F We updated the Form M1 standard deduction limitation worksheet line 6 percentage from 80% to 20%.

Tax Application Release Notes and Resources/2019_1040_interims.htm/TY2021

Last Modified: 09/30/2021

Last System Build: 11/08/2021