2020 ProSeries/1040-NR ReadMe
Release 2020.490 / September 22, 2021
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The calculations for federal have been updated to reflect the exclusion of unemployment insurance income that comes from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
ProSeries was able to work with the IRS to be able to file the Form 7202 electronically without needing to attach a PDF. File as you normally would.
ProSeries able to work with the IRS to be able to file the Form 8915-E electronically without needing to attach a PDF. The program is now updated to handle this.
All forms in this release of ProSeries/1040-NR can be filed with the IRS.
Items addressed in this release of ProSeries/1040-NR
The following issues have been addressed in this release
- Various form and electronic filing validation updates.
Items addressed in previous releases of ProSeries/1040-NR
The following issues were addressed in prior releases
- Release 2020.460 / September 1, 2021
- Various form and electronic filing validation updates.
- Release 2020.420 / August 4, 2021
- Various form and electronic filing validation updates.
- Release 2020.390 / July 14, 2021
- Various form and electronic filing validation updates.
- Release 2020.360 / June 23, 2021
- Various form and electronic filing validation updates.
- Release 2020.340 / June 9, 2021
- Various form and electronic filing validation updates.
- Form 7202 was not printing with the filing copy of the return.
- Release 2020.330 / June 2, 2021
- Various form and electronic filing validation updates.
- Release 2020.310 / May 19, 2021
- Various form and electronic filing validation updates.
- Form 8606 line 25b and Form 8915-E line 14, were doubling negative amounts.
- Form 8615 Schedule D Worksheet was missing a dollar amount.
- Form 8938 was only printing even copies of the continuation statements.
- Release 2020.290 / May 5, 2021
- Various form and electronic filing validation updates.
- The student loan deduction worksheet wasn't correctly calculating lines 5 and 6.
- Schedule D was calculating losses incorrectly at a maximum of $3,000 instead of the correct maximum loss of $1,500.
- Form 3800 was doubling the amount of solar credits from S-corporation Schedule K-1's.
- Release 2020.280 / March 28, 2021
- Various form and electronic filing validation updates.
- Release 2020.230 / March 24, 2021
- Various form and electronic filing validation updates.
- Form 6251 line 5 was not calculating the exemption amount and has now been addressed.
- Release 2020.220 / March 17, 2021
- Various form and electronic filing validation updates.
- Form 2210 was not calculating the short method or lines 18-26 correctly and have now been addressed.
- Form 8615 Schedule D was not calculating line 1 correctly and have now been addressed.
- Form 6251 Filing states was not automatically populating and have now been addressed.
- Withholding amounts on SSA-1042S and RRB-1042S were doubling and have now been addressed.
- Literals relating to Additional Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Credit were missing and have now been addressed.
- The Tax Planner worksheet was not correctly accounting for the above the line charitable deduction.
- Release 2020.200 / March 03, 2021
- Various form and electronic filing validation updates.
- Release 2020.190 / February 23, 2021
- Various form and electronic filing validation updates.
What's new in ProSeries/1040-NR
For more information on what's new in ProSeries, open a 1040-NR return, go to
the Help menu, choose Help Center, then select What's New This
Year?
We've added the following forms and worksheets to ProSeries/1040-NR for the
2020 tax year:
- Form 1040-NR, U.S. Nonresident Alien Income Tax Return
- This is the new "shorter" Form 1040-NR. The "old" 1040-NR is now a worksheet that supports this form.
- Schedule A, Itemized Deductions
- Schedule NEC, Tax on Income Not Effectively Connected With a U.S. Trade or Business
- Schedule OI, Other Information
- Schedule 1, Additional Income and Adjustments to Income
- Schedule 2, Additional Taxes
- Schedule 3, Additional Credits and Payments
- Form 5471, Schedule Q, CFC Income by CFC Income Groups
- Form 5471, Schedule R, Distributions From a Foreign Corporation
- Form 7202, Credits for Sick Leave and Family Leave for Certain Self-Employed Individuals
- Form 8915-E, Qualified 2020 Disaster Retirement Plan Distributions and Repayments (Use for Coronavirus-Related Distributions)
- Schedule LEP, Request for Change in Language Preference
- Form 1099-NEC, Nonemployee Compensation Worksheet
Tip: For information about changes to existing forms, start
or open a Form 1040-NR return, go to the Help menu, select
Help Center, then select What's New This
Year?
Obsolete ProSeries/1040-NR forms and worksheets
We've removed the following obsolete forms and worksheets from ProSeries/1040-NR
for the 2020 tax year:
- Schedule SE - Short , Short Method
- The IRS is no longer offering a short method for Self-Employment Tax
Tax legislation issues
For information on tax legislation issues, open a 1040-NR return, go to the
Help menu, choose Help Center, then select What's New This
Year?
Electronic filing
Important:
Electronic filing functionality for converting files is available in this release of
ProSeries/1040-NR. The IRS opened for e-file on February 12, 2021.
For electronic filing procedures and information, click the
EF button on the toolbar to go to the EF Center (also
known as the HomeBase Electronic Filing view). The Steps to
E-File section on the right side of the EF Center summarizes the steps
that you take when you file a client's return(s) electronically. In the
Steps to E-File section:
- Click a step to see detailed information in the ProSeries User's Guide.
- Click a button to see more information about electronic filing.
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