Sent: Tue, Dec 20, 2011 3:31 pm
Subject: MI SBT e-file Discontinuance

As of December 21, 2011, Michigan will no longer accept electronically filed Single Business Tax (SBT) returns through the SBT Direct e-File Portal.  The final date to transmit an electronically filed SBT return is December 20, 2011.  Any SBT returns submitted subsequent to this date should be paper-filed and mailed to the appropriate address listed on the form.

Sent: Fri Dec. 19, 2011 10:43 AM
Subject: MI Business Tax e-file - IRS Maintenance Period

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Modernized e-File (MeF) system will be unavailable from 11:59 a.m. on Tuesday, December 27, 2011, through 9:00 a.m. on Monday, January 9, 2012, for end of year maintenance. The IRS MeF system will begin accepting business e-file returns on January 9, 2012. 

Although the IRS will begin accepting business e-file returns on January 9, 2012, Michigan will not begin retrieving and accepting MBT e-file returns until January 17, 2012, and therefore, will begin issuing acknowledgments for MBT e-file returns on January 18, 2012.

In preparation for this maintenance period Michigan recommends that first time MBT e-file returns are transmitted no later than December 19, 2011.  Previously rejected MBT e-file returns can be retransmitted through December 21, 2011.  This will allow time to make Michigan acknowledgements available before the IRS maintenance period.

MBT e-file returns submitted to the IRS MeF system after December 27, 2011, will not be acknowledged by Michigan until January 18, 2012. 

Return status information using Michigan’s Web self service feature “Check My Business Tax Info” will be available after January 18, 2012, for returns submitted to the IRS MeF during this period.

All eligible MBT returns prepared using software must be e-filed.  E-filing MBT returns, beginning January 17, 2012, is the most efficient way to file. 

Please visit Michigan’s Web sites at www.michigan.gov/mbt and www.MIfastfile.org for program updates and information regarding the MBT e-file mandate for tax year 2011.

The Discovery Projects Unit will be mailing 15,700 intents dated 10/12/2011.  

These assessments are from 2007 CP2000 letters dated 06/30/2011. The telephone 

numbers listed on the intents are the Projects Unit and Collections. These 

intents will be mailed out on October 11, 2011.

The Projects Unit will be mailing an additional 3472 Letter of Inquiry-Michigan

Income Tax Review notices to taxpayers for the 2007 for non-filers.  The letters 

will be dated for September 2, 2011.  The telephone number listed on the letters 

will be (517) 636-4486 for the Call Center.  These letters will be imaged.  

The Projects Unit will be mailing 19,679 Notice of Proposed Income Tax Adjustments to taxpayers for the CP2000 (unreported income) match program for the 2007 tax year. The letters will be dated for June 30, 2011. The telephone number listed on the letter is (517) 636-4486 for the Call Center.

Discovery & Tax Enforcement-Projects Unit will be mailing 3,305 Notice of Proposed Income Tax Adjustment  letters dated March 17, 2011. These letters are generated when the IRS notifies Michigan that the taxpayer has not filed a return or an adjustment was made that would affect the final AGI. These letters affect various years. The letters have the IIT Call Center telephone number listed.