E-7.4 released on 04/24/2009 - 8:30am

E-File Direct
1042-S
In the 1042-S electronic file, the program was not calculating the correct Total Withholding Credit in the C Record, positions 31-45. This has been corrected.

E-7.3 released on 04/16/2009 - 1:07pm

E-File Direct
W-2 Electronic File
If multiple payers were selected and the second payer contained no employees, the program would duplicate the RT record of the previous payer.  This has been corrected so that if no employees exist in a payer, no RT record is written.

E-7.2 released on 03/31/2009 - 10:43am

E-File Direct
W-2C Electronic File
Both the Previous and Corrected Employer Types were included in the W-2C electronic file which was incorrect if they were both the same.  This has been corrected.

E-Filing Services
When using Large Fonts, the buttons on some screens were not viewable.  This has been corrected.

E-7.1 released on 03/18/2009 - 9:19am

General Information
Foreign Country Code - Serbia
The Foreign Country Code for Serbia has been updated.

A-T-F Payroll
State Magnetic Media File - Maryland MMREF-1 (Annual)
The program has been updated to support the new 2008 Maryland MMREF-1 (annual) file for W-2s.

E-7.0 released on 03/09/2009 - 1:35pm

A-T-F Payroll
2009 Federal Withholding Tax Tables
The program has been updated to support the new 2009 Federal Withholding Tax Tables. After updating, checks entered and dated April 1 or later will use the new rates.

E-6.4 released on 03/05/2009 - 4:21pm

W-2/1099 Forms
1042S Form
When calculating a 1042S form, the Country Name fields will be pulled from the Country Code field.

A-T-F Payroll
Wisconsin
The W-2 Magnetic Media file for Wisconsin was not including Carriage Returns and Line Feeds.  This has been corrected.

E-Filing Services
State Filing - Kansas, Idaho and Rhode Island
E-Filing Services, for the 1099-MISC forms for Kansas, Idaho and Rhode Island, was not working correctly due to having to report quarterly/monthly/semimonthly/quad-monthly payments.  This has been corrected.

E-6.3 released on 03/02/2009 - 12:03pm

E-Filing Services
State Filing - 1099-MISC Forms
The following states have been added to E-Filing Services for electronically filing the 1099-MISC forms:

Idaho
New Jersey

E-6.2 released on 02/27/2009 - 1:22pm

E-Filing Services
State Filing - 1099-MISC Forms
The following states have been added to E-Filing Services for electronically filing 1099-MISC forms:

Connecticut
Georgia
Kansas
Maine
Mississippi
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Rhode Island
Wisconsin
West Virginia

E-6.1 released on 02/24/2009 - 3:42pm

A-T-F Payroll
Alternate SUTA - Reports
In certain situations, when running reports, the program was not properly applying employee SUTA liabilities to the correct state.  This has been corrected.

E-Filing Services
1042S Form
An error would occur because the program was looking for a second zip code field for foreign addresses on the 1042S form.  This has been corrected.

Check Status
The Status messages can now be printed from the Check Status screen.  Also, the Check Status screen can be now be resized so that long Status messages can be read.

Retrieve Invoice - Prepaid Accounts
After retrieving invoices for Prepaid Accounts, the customer was being prompted for Credit Card information.  This has been corrected.

State Filing - 1099-MISC Form
The 1099-MISC form can be E-Filed through E-Filing Services for the following states:

E-6.0 released on 02/03/2009 - 5:32pm

E-File Direct and E-Filing Services
1099 Forms
Starting in Version E-4.5, for all 1099 form types (1099, 1098, 5498, W-2G, etc), the Omitted status of records was not handled correctly.

If you have any Omitted records it is possible that Omitted records were included and Un-Omitted records were excluded.  This problem only applies to Payers with one or more Omitted records.  Payers with no Omitted records are not affected.  This problem has been corrected with Version E-6.0 and higher.

**Please contact AMS if you submitted 1099 form types using E-File Direct or E-Filing Services on or after Friday, January 30.

E-Filing Services
W-2Gs
An 'Invalid Element' error would occur when E-Filing W-2Gs through E-Filing Services. This has been corrected.

E-5.0 released on 02/02/2009 - 3:12pm

E-Filing Services
Federal 1099 E-Filing
Starting in Version E-4.4, an error would occur when E-Filing 1099s to a Federal Agency.  This has been corrected.

Invoice Information
Incorrect information was being reported for the Total Price and the Total Forms per Batch, when retrieving multiple Invoices.  This has been corrected.

Invoice Printing
A command to print invoice information for E-Filing Services has been added.

E-4.6 released on 01/31/2009 - 2:24pm

E-Filing Services
Payment Status - Pre-Paid Account
If there were not enough funds in the user's Prepaid Account when paying for selected batches, the program was not prompting the user for additional Credit Card information.  This has been corrected.

E-4.5 released on 01/30/2009 - 3:39pm

E-Filing Direct
1042S
The 1042S was not filling in the Recipient, State and Zip fields for foreign recipients correctly.  This has been corrected.

E-Filing Services
Check Status - Detail
A Detail Status for a selected batch, using the View command, has been added on the Check Status screen.  This Detail Status lists the Payer, FEIN, Recipient, TIN and Form Type contained in the selected Batch.

Kentucky - 1099-MISC State E-Filing
The 1099-MISC forms can be E-Filed to Kentucky through E-Filing Services.

Payment Status - Pre-Paid Account
If there were not enough funds in the user's Prepaid Account when paying for selected batches, the program was not prompting the user for additional Credit Card information.  This has been corrected.

State Fulfillment - 1099-MISC Forms
1099-MISC forms that did not contain a State Code in the Optional Account Number Field were still being included when E-Filing and would generate an error message when submitting the information.  This has been corrected.

E-4.4 released on 01/30/2009 - 1:09pm

E-Filing Direct
1042S
The 1042S was not filling in the Recipient, State and Zip fields for foreign recipients correctly.  This has been corrected.

E-Filing Services
Check Status - Detail
A Detail Status for a selected batch, using the View command, has been added on the Check Status screen.  This Detail Status lists the Payer, FEIN, Recipient, TIN and Form Type contained in the selected Batch.

Kentucky - 1099-MISC State E-Filing
The 1099-MISC forms can be E-Filed to Kentucky through E-Filing Services. 

Payment Status - Pre-Paid Account
If there were not enough funds in the user's Prepaid Account when paying for selected batches, the program was not prompting the user for additional Credit Card information.  This has been corrected.

E-4.3 released on 01/26/2009 - 2:36pm

A-T-F Payroll
Oregon - Domestic Form 132
For multiple 942 employees, each employee would print on a different Domestic Form 132 for each quarter.  Also, if there were no wages in a quarter, the dollar amount fields would print as blanks instead of 0.00.  These issues have been corrected.

E-Filing Services
Range Check Error
A Range Check error would occur when retrieving Batch Invoice information for 941 PIN Requests.  This has been corrected.

Bulk Shipping Methods
We have added two new Bulk Shipping Methods, UPS -2 Day Air and UPS - 1 Day Air, to E-Filing Services.

E-4.2 released on 01/22/2009 - 1:36pm

W-2/1099 Forms
Export to Tab Delimited File for Excel
When exporting to a tab delimited file, if the option to split the City State and Zip into three columns was selected, the program was including all data after the Zip in one column.  This has been corrected.

A-T-F Payroll
941 Client Letter
When receiving a refund on the 941, the 941 Client Letter was not printing a mailing address.  This has been corrected.

Massachusetts Client Letter
The Massachusetts Client Letter has been updated with the new instructions to file the DET-1 and the 1700-HI forms via the state website.

E-4.1 released on 01/21/2009 - 3:07pm

W-2/1099 Forms
Export to Tab Delimited File for Excel
An Excel Export has been added to the W-2/1099 Forms module.  This export will create a file from the fields on the selected form that can be opened in Excel.  This export was added to support quarterly/annual filing for some states, such as Connecticut.

A-T-F Payroll
Alternate SUTA Wages
When an Alternate SUTA State was set up mid year, the program was not allocating SUTA wages before the effective date to any state.  This has been corrected.

California DE-3HW Form
Line D on the California DE-3HW form was defaulting to the old 0 .7 rate instead of the current 0.8 rate.  This has been corrected.

Kentucky
The Employee Count was using the number of employees with withholding instead of the employees with state wages.  This has been corrected.

Oregon - Domestic Forms
The Oregon Domestic Form 132 was not generating a form for each quarter.  This has been corrected.

Forms-Etc
Arkansas 209B Form
The Arkansas total supplemental wages were not transferring to Line 2 of the Arkansas 209B form.  This has been corrected.

Forms
The following form has been added:
941X

Import Assistant
Federal W-2 MAG File Import
When importing a Federal W-2 MAG file, the Roth IRA Code, AA, in Box 12 was not importing. This has been corrected.

E-4.0 released on 01/15/2009 - 9:06am

 A-T-F Payroll
94X Client Letter - Georgia & Tennessee
The Georgia and Tennessee client letters were printing the incorrect mailing addresses on the 94X client letters.  The addresses have been updated.

941 Client Letter
Updated the 941 Client Letter to include the phrase "Department of the Treasury" when no payment is due.

941 E-Filing PIN Request
When doing a 941 E-Filing PIN request, the PIN request was not being marked as Confirmed and was being entered into the log file twice. This has been corrected.

Arizona A-1R Form
Gross Wages were printing on the Arizona A-1R form instead of SIT Wages. This has been corrected.

Check Entry
Changed the Check Entry screen to allow entry of a colon (:), for Hour:Minute time entry, in the Hours fields when Implied Decimal is turned on.

Connecticut 941 Form
The SUTA Due Date was printing on the Connecticut 941 instead of the SIT Due Date. This has been corrected.

Nebraska W-3 Form
The Nebraska W-3 form was printing the Due Date instead of the SITW Due Date.  This has been corrected.

Oklahoma and Kentucky Withholding Forms
Oklahoma and Kentucky Withholding forms were using the number of non-exempt SUTA Employee's instead of the number of Employee's with state wages.  This has been corrected.

SUTA Employee Count
In certain situations, SUTA Exempt Employees were not being included on the combined SUTA/SIT forms. This has been corrected.

Forms-Etc
Forms
The following forms have been updated:
6847
Pennsylvania 1667
Vermont - C-101

E-Filing Services
941 PIN
941 PIN request Batch IDs were showing up twice on the Status' screen.  This has been corrected.

941 PIN requests are now automatically marked as Paid, since there is no charge for a PIN request.

1042-S
The 1042-S forms can now be electronically filed through E-Filing Services.

Batch Invoices
When checking a Batch Invoice, the "Date of Submission" and the "Paid" field will now be filled in for a given batch.

E-3.1 released on 01/08/2009 - 2:08pm

A-T-F Payroll
94X Client Letter
The Charlotte addresses on the 94X client letter have been updated to the Cincinnati addresses.

943 Form
In certain situations, the 943 form was not calculating the correct SSWH or MCWH for Exempt employees.  This has been corrected.

California DE-3 Form
SUTA exempt 942 Employee's were not showing up on the California DE-3 to report PIT wages.  This has been corrected.

Connecticut - 941 - Due Date
The Due Date on the Connecticut 941 form was using the SUTA Dues Date instead of the SIT Due Date.  This has been corrected.

Georgia 2009 State Tax Tables
The Georgia 2009 State Tax Tables have been updated.

Maryland 2009 State Withholding
If Maryland Taxable wages were less than zero, a range check error would occur. This has been corrected.

Forms-Etc
Forms
The following form has been updated:
Connecticut - 941 DRS/P

E-Filing Services
Pre-Paid Account Information
When trying to retrieve a Pre-Paid account balance, the software would not display the amount and appear to lockup.  This has been corrected.

E-3.0 released on 01/05/2009 - 2:26pm

A-T-F Payroll
940, 941 & 944 Forms
The IRS no longer allows an electronic Paid Preparer's signature on the 940, 941 and 944 forms. The IRS requires that these forms be manually signed by the Preparer.

943 Form
The 943 mailing address has been updated.

944 Form
When there were no wages to report, Line 1 on the 944 form was not printing "0.00". This has been corrected.

Maryland 2009 State Withholding
The State Withholding for Maryland was not calculating the correct amount. This has been fixed.

Washington - 5208A
SUTA exempt officer wages were not being reported on the 5208A after making changes to allow Exempt After dates on the Employee's Status Information screen. This has been corrected.

Rhode Island - 2009 State Tax Tables
The 2009 State Tax Tables for Rhode Island have been updated.

1040 Schedule H
Line 26 on the Schedule H form was not calculating correctly in some cases. This has been fixed.

Forms-Etc
Forms
The following form has been updated:
Mississippi - 89-140

E-File Direct
Puerto Rico - W-2 & 480
The E-File Direct option has been updated for the Puerto Rico W-2 & 480 forms.

E-Filing Services
Check Status
The first time you did a check status, the status panel was being cleared, so it looked like no status was returning. This has been corrected.

E-2.0 released on 12/30/2008 - 1:57pm

A-T-F Payroll
944 E-Filing
The 944 form can now be E-Filed in the A-T-F Payroll Module.

California Forms
California’s definition of Subject Wages no longer includes PIT wages. Consequently, over-reporting of subject wages could occur when an employee’s annual PIT wages exceeded annual SUI wages.

The problem was with forms DE 3HW and DE 7 and has been fixed. In spite of this problem, the itemized lines were reported correctly.

Forms
The following forms have been updated:
943
Illinois - 941-A (Added)
Pennsylvania - W-3

Maryland 2009 State Tax Tables
Maryland's 2009 State Tax Tables have been updated.

New Jersey - Family Leave Act (User Defined Field)
New Jersey has enacted a new employee deduction for the Family Leave Act. If New Jersey is a state that has been setup, the program will automatically prompt the user to add a new User Defined Field (NJFLI) for the Family Leave Insurance.

Forms-Etc
944 Screen
The 944 Form entry screen indicated the year as 2007 (it was only on-screen, the form printed correctly for 2008). This has been corrected.

Forms
The following forms have been updated:
943
943-A
945
945-A
945 Voucher
Idaho - 967 & 967 Split Monthly
Pennsylvania - W-3 & 501

South Carolina 1605 & 1606 Forms
The South Carolina 1065 & 1606 forms were printing the 4th Quarter Due Date as 2008 instead of 2009. This has been corrected.

E-1.0 released on 12/22/2008 - 1:46pm

W-2/1099 Forms
Forms
The following forms have been updated:
1042S - Payer & Recipient Copy
1099-H - Recipient Copy
5498SA - Recipient Copy
Puerto Rico - 480.6A, 480.6B (Payer) & W-2 (Recipient)
W-2G - Recipient

A-T-F Payroll
1040 Schedule H
Preparer's information can now be printed on the 1040 Schedule H.

2009 Payroll
When accessing A-T-F Payroll, the program will prompt for the payroll year, 2008 or 2009.

Checks - Calculating
When using Alt-C, in certain situations, the checks were not calculating correctly. This has been fixed.

Federal Client Letters
The mailing addresses for the Federal Client Letters have been updated.

Forms
The following forms have been updated:
941 Voucher
944
944 Voucher
1040 Schedule H
Iowa - 0103
Kansas -1001
Nebraska - W-3N
Oregon - OA (Domestic) & WR1

E-File Direct/E-Filing Services
E-File Direct/E-Filing Services for 2008 has been updated.

Forms-Etc
Forms
The following forms have been updated:
941 Voucher
944 Voucher
1040 - Schedule H
Colorado - 1093B
Kansas - CNS-100
Maryland - MW 508
Massachusetts - 1700-HI
Nebraska - W-3N
Oregon - WR1 & OA Domestic

Import Assistant
Import W-2s from QuickBooks 2006+
The Import W-2s from QuickBooks 2006+ has been updated. The new import will allow you to create a W-2 print file which can be defined and then imported into our program.

D-3.1 released on 11/26/2008 - 12:02pm

General Information
Download Manager
The Download Manager was not connecting to the website.  This has been corrected.

A-T-F Payroll
Forms
The following forms have been updated:
940
941

Forms-Etc
Forms
The following forms have been updated:
1040 Schedule H
940 - Schedule A
941
CT-1 - Annual Railroad Retirement Tax
Montana - MW-1
Wisconsin - WT-7

D-3.0 released on 11/20/2008 - 1:01pm

W-2/1099 Forms
Forms
The following form has been updated:
W-2 - Copy A

A-T-F Payroll
Employee List - State Unemployment Reports
In Version D-2.1, employees were left off the State Unemployment Reports in certain situations.  This has been corrected.

Forms
The following form has been updated:
Arizona - A1-R

Forms-Etc
Forms
The following forms have been updated:
8809
940
940V
Arizona - A1-R
Colorado - 1093A & B
Indiana - WH-3
Michigan - 165 Form
Nebraska - UI 11T
Pennsylvania - 501 & W-3

D-2.1 released on 10/27/2008 - 12:36pm

General Information
Download Manager
The Download Manager was not connecting to the website. This has been fixed.

A-T-F Payroll
Arkansas - 209B Form
The Form Due Date was printing over the Sign Date. This has been corrected.

Louisiana - ES-4 Form
Louisiana requires that Lines 11, 12 and 13 on the ES-4 print with decimal points. The form has been updated to meet this requirement.

Tax Exempt Status
The program has been updated to support the exemption of SUTA, SDI, Other, FUTA, Social Security and Medicare after a specific date.

Wisconsin Forms
Wisconsin wants the quarterly forms to report the account number as the SUIN instead of the FEIN. This has been updated.

Forms-Etc
Forms
The following forms have been updated:
1042
1042T
8027
Arizona - A-1R
Maryland - MW-508
North Carolina - NC-5 & NC-5P
Pennsylvania - City of Philadelphia Annual Reconciliation of 2008, 501 & W-3

D-2.0 released on 10/06/2008 - 1:21pm

General Information
Website Updates
When opening the program a message, "Cannot access AMS website", would occur.  This has been corrected.

Forms-Etc
Forms
The following forms have been updated:
Connecticut - REG-1
Wisconsin - UCT-101

E-Filing Services
Prepaid Accounts
On the Account Setup screen, if "Remember Password" was selected the program was automatically selecting "Prepaid Account"as well.  This has been corrected.

D-1.0 released on 09/25/2008 - 4:02pm

W-2/1099 Forms
Forms
The following forms have been updated:
Puerto Rico 480.6A
Puerto Rico 480.6B
Puerto Rico 480.5

A-T-F Payroll
Forms 
The following forms have been updated:
Colorado 1094
Louisiana  ES41
Michigan 1020
North Dakota 1263
Virginia VA-5M
Virginia VA-5Q
Vermont - 1471

Forms-Etc
Forms
The following forms have been updated:
8655
Montana MW-3
Virginia VA-5M
Virginia VA-5Q

Report L- Worker's Compensation
When running a Worker's Compensation report multiple times in succession that spans multiple years, the first employee's paychecks for the preceding year were being omitted. This has been corrected.

C-3.1 released on 08/06/2008 - 9:25am

A-T-F Payroll
Utah - 3H Form & Wage Listing
Utah no longer wants the cents reported on the Wage Listing or the first three lines of the 3H forms. This has been updated to meet these specifications.

Report A
In certain situations, the quarterly liability was not equal to the weekly liability on Report A. This has been corrected.

Monthly Filers - SIT
The SIT deposit coupons were reporting the wrong filing month. This has been corrected.

Employee - Tagging Employees with No Checks
There was a problem finding employee's with no checks for a date range if the last physical employee only had a Default check. This has been corrected.

Deposits
Omitted deposits were still being accumulated. This has been corrected.