TFOP Alert: IRS Forms and Publications Update (133730X)
With the new notice from the IRS that there may be changes made to the federal forms because of the new tax law passed on Feb 9, AND the fact that the IRS will NOT be printing the forms to send to libraries, what are other library systems doing? Are you pulling the forms with signage and info, telling folks were to order when they are ready? Or....? Thanks for thoughts. Jolee Hamlin Senior Associate Director of Public Service Capital Area District Libraries -- Administration 401 S Capitol Ave Lansing MI 48933 517-367-0810<tel:517-367-0810> (external); ext. 1810 (internal) | hamlinj@cadl.org<mailto:hamlinj@cadl.org> www.cadl.org<http://www.cadl.org/> | facebook.com/cadlibrary | twitter.com/cadl
Hi Jolee, We got the notice yesterday. I called our Representative's office and was told the tax law changes only affect the 2018 W-4 for withholding. The staffer said the forms for filing 2017 taxes are not affected. We had already been giving out forms for about a month when we got the letter (Notice 1437) yesterday, and had no way of contacting people who had already picked up forms. We're leaving our forms out, but will be considering whether we continue to distribute printed forms in future years. If any of this comes back to haunt us, we'll definitely default to providing access to and assistance with the IRS web site. Hope this helps, Paul Paul McCann Dexter District Library Library Director 3255 Alpine St. Phone: 734-426-4477 Dexter, MI 48130 Fax: 734-426-1217 www.dexter.lib.mi.us On 2/20/2018 4:08 PM, Hamlin,Jolee via Michlib-l wrote:
With the new notice from the IRS that there may be changes made to the federal forms because of the new tax law passed on Feb 9, AND the fact that the IRS will NOT be printing the forms to send to libraries, what are other library systems doing? Are you pulling the forms with signage and info, telling folks were to order when they are ready? Or….? Thanks for thoughts.
Jolee Hamlin
Senior Associate Director of Public Service
Capital Area District Libraries -- Administration
401 S Capitol Ave
Lansing MI 48933
517-367-0810 <tel:517-367-0810> (external); ext. 1810 (internal) | hamlinj@cadl.org <mailto:hamlinj@cadl.org>
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At Garden City, we also received the notice yesterday. Since the notice did not specify which forms were affected, we chose to leave the forms out for the public. We printed the notice and posted it by the tax forms. I also forwarded the notice to all of my reference staff. James B Lenze, Director Garden City Public Library jamesl@gardencitymi.org Support the Garden City Library Building Fund today! https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=9AQANXAXT7KPN From: Paul McCann via Michlib-l<mailto:michlib-l@mcls.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 1:05 PM To: michlib-l@mcls.org<mailto:michlib-l@mcls.org> Subject: Re: [Michlib-l] TFOP Alert: IRS Forms and Publications Update (133730X) Hi Jolee, We got the notice yesterday. I called our Representative's office and was told the tax law changes only affect the 2018 W-4 for withholding. The staffer said the forms for filing 2017 taxes are not affected. We had already been giving out forms for about a month when we got the letter (Notice 1437) yesterday, and had no way of contacting people who had already picked up forms. We're leaving our forms out, but will be considering whether we continue to distribute printed forms in future years. If any of this comes back to haunt us, we'll definitely default to providing access to and assistance with the IRS web site. Hope this helps, Paul Paul McCann Dexter District Library Library Director 3255 Alpine St. Phone: 734-426-4477 Dexter, MI 48130 Fax: 734-426-1217 www.dexter.lib.mi.us<http://www.dexter.lib.mi.us> On 2/20/2018 4:08 PM, Hamlin,Jolee via Michlib-l wrote: With the new notice from the IRS that there may be changes made to the federal forms because of the new tax law passed on Feb 9, AND the fact that the IRS will NOT be printing the forms to send to libraries, what are other library systems doing? Are you pulling the forms with signage and info, telling folks were to order when they are ready? Or….? Thanks for thoughts. Jolee Hamlin Senior Associate Director of Public Service Capital Area District Libraries -- Administration 401 S Capitol Ave Lansing MI 48933 517-367-0810<tel:517-367-0810> (external); ext. 1810 (internal) | hamlinj@cadl.org<mailto:hamlinj@cadl.org> www.cadl.org<http://www.cadl.org/> | facebook.com/cadlibrary | twitter.com/cadl _______________________________________________ Michlib-l mailing list Michlib-l@mcls.org<mailto:Michlib-l@mcls.org> http://mail2.mcls.org/mailman/listinfo/michlib-l
Hi Paul, Your rep was probably thinking about the tax cuts and jobs act of last year which affected withholding. The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 is much more of a mess because it retroactively extended a bunch of tax credits that had expired at the end of 2016 to expire in December 2017. I have no idea if this affects forms or just instructions and I'm guessing the IRS is still trying to figure that out as well. Here is a small list of some of the changes: https://www.accountingtoday.com/opinion/tax-aspects-of-the-bipartisan-budget... I know some people with solar projects that are waiting to redo their taxes because of it. I guess we'll have to wait and see what the IRS re-issues. Ryan Eby From: "Paul McCann via Michlib-l" <michlib-l@mcls.org> To: michlib-l@mcls.org Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 1:02:12 PM Subject: Re: [Michlib-l] TFOP Alert: IRS Forms and Publications Update (133730X) Hi Jolee, We got the notice yesterday. I called our Representative's office and was told the tax law changes only affect the 2018 W-4 for withholding. The staffer said the forms for filing 2017 taxes are not affected. We had already been giving out forms for about a month when we got the letter (Notice 1437) yesterday, and had no way of contacting people who had already picked up forms. We're leaving our forms out, but will be considering whether we continue to distribute printed forms in future years. If any of this comes back to haunt us, we'll definitely default to providing access to and assistance with the IRS web site. Hope this helps, Paul Paul McCann Dexter District Library Library Director 3255 Alpine St. Phone: 734-426-4477 Dexter, MI 48130 Fax: 734-426-1217 [ http://www.dexter.lib.mi.us/ | www.dexter.lib.mi.us ] On 2/20/2018 4:08 PM, Hamlin,Jolee via Michlib-l wrote: With the new notice from the IRS that there may be changes made to the federal forms because of the new tax law passed on Feb 9, AND the fact that the IRS will NOT be printing the forms to send to libraries, what are other library systems doing? Are you pulling the forms with signage and info, telling folks were to order when they are ready? Or….? Thanks for thoughts. Jolee Hamlin Senior Associate Director of Public Service Capital Area District Libraries -- Administration 401 S Capitol Ave Lansing MI 48933 [ tel:517-367-0810 | 517-367-0810 ] (external); ext. 1810 (internal) | [ mailto:hamlinj@cadl.org | hamlinj@cadl.org ] [ http://www.cadl.org/ | www.cadl.org ] | facebook.com/cadlibrary | twitter.com/cadl _______________________________________________ Michlib-l mailing list [ mailto:Michlib-l@mcls.org | Michlib-l@mcls.org ] [ http://mail2.mcls.org/mailman/listinfo/michlib-l | http://mail2.mcls.org/mailman/listinfo/michlib-l ] _______________________________________________ Michlib-l mailing list Michlib-l@mcls.org http://mail2.mcls.org/mailman/listinfo/michlib-l
According to this link: https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/changes-to-current- forms-publications I think we are mostly OK except for a section of the 1040 Instruction booklet. The other changes mentioned are not to any forms we have available for patrons to just to take. They all have to be printed. We printed out the corrected page for the 1040 instructionsand put it in our instruction booklets. As Paul mentioned though, there is no way to inform people who have already taken the booklet. Keegan Sulecki *Head of Information Services* Chelsea District Library p: 734.475.8732 X218 <(734)%20475-8732> f: 734.475.6190 <(734)%20476-6190> a: 221 S. Main Street | Chelsea | MI | 48118 w: chelseadistrictlibrary.org e: ksulecki@chelseadistrictlibrary.org <https://www.facebook.com/ChelseaDistrictLibrary/> <https://twitter.com/ChelseaLibrary> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Ryan Eby via Michlib-l <michlib-l@mcls.org> wrote:
Hi Paul,
Your rep was probably thinking about the tax cuts and jobs act of last year which affected withholding. The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 is much more of a mess because it retroactively extended a bunch of tax credits that had expired at the end of 2016 to expire in December 2017. I have no idea if this affects forms or just instructions and I'm guessing the IRS is still trying to figure that out as well.
Here is a small list of some of the changes:
https://www.accountingtoday.com/opinion/tax-aspects-of- the-bipartisan-budget-act-of-2018
I know some people with solar projects that are waiting to redo their taxes because of it. I guess we'll have to wait and see what the IRS re-issues.
Ryan Eby
------------------------------ *From: *"Paul McCann via Michlib-l" <michlib-l@mcls.org> *To: *michlib-l@mcls.org *Sent: *Wednesday, February 21, 2018 1:02:12 PM *Subject: *Re: [Michlib-l] TFOP Alert: IRS Forms and Publications Update (133730X)
Hi Jolee,
We got the notice yesterday. I called our Representative's office and was told the tax law changes only affect the 2018 W-4 for withholding. The staffer said the forms for filing 2017 taxes are not affected. We had already been giving out forms for about a month when we got the letter (Notice 1437) yesterday, and had no way of contacting people who had already picked up forms. We're leaving our forms out, but will be considering whether we continue to distribute printed forms in future years. If any of this comes back to haunt us, we'll definitely default to providing access to and assistance with the IRS web site.
Hope this helps, Paul
Paul McCann Dexter District Library Library Director 3255 Alpine St. Phone: 734-426-4477 <(734)%20426-4477> Dexter, MI 48130 Fax: 734-426-1217 <(734)%20426-1217> www.dexter.lib.mi.us
On 2/20/2018 4:08 PM, Hamlin,Jolee via Michlib-l wrote:
With the new notice from the IRS that there may be changes made to the federal forms because of the new tax law passed on Feb 9, AND the fact that the IRS will NOT be printing the forms to send to libraries, what are other library systems doing? Are you pulling the forms with signage and info, telling folks were to order when they are ready? Or….? Thanks for thoughts.
Jolee Hamlin
Senior Associate Director of Public Service
Capital Area District Libraries -- Administration
401 S Capitol Ave
Lansing MI 48933
517-367-0810 (external); ext. 1810 (internal) | hamlinj@cadl.org
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We came to the same conclusion as Keegan. We made copies of the notice and stapled it to our copies of the 1040 instruction booklet. Patty Patty Braden, Director Romulus Public Library 11121 Wayne Road Romulus, MI 48174 734-942-7589 www.romuluslibrary.org From: "michlib-l" <michlib-l@mcls.org> To: "Ryan Eby" <ebyr@aadl.org> Cc: "michlib-l" <michlib-l@mcls.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 2:43:35 PM Subject: Re: [Michlib-l] TFOP Alert: IRS Forms and Publications Update (133730X) According to this link: [ https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/changes-to-current-forms-publications | https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/changes-to-current-forms-publications ] I think we are mostly OK except for a section of the 1040 Instruction booklet. The other changes mentioned are not to any forms we have available for patrons to just to take. They all have to be printed. We printed out the corrected page for the 1040 instructionsand put it in our instruction booklets. As Paul mentioned though, there is no way to inform people who have already taken the booklet. Keegan Sulecki Head of Information Services Chelsea District Library p: [ tel:(734)%20475-8732 | 734.475.8732 X218 ] f: [ tel:(734)%20476-6190 | 734.475.6190 ] a: 221 S. Main Street | Chelsea | MI | 48118 w: [ http://chelseadistrictlibrary.org/ | chelseadistrictlibrary.org ] e: [ mailto:ksulecki@chelseadistrictlibrary.org | ksulecki@chelseadistrictlibrary.org ] [ https://www.facebook.com/ChelseaDistrictLibrary/ ] [ https://twitter.com/ChelseaLibrary ] On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Ryan Eby via Michlib-l < [ mailto:michlib-l@mcls.org | michlib-l@mcls.org ] > wrote: Hi Paul, Your rep was probably thinking about the tax cuts and jobs act of last year which affected withholding. The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 is much more of a mess because it retroactively extended a bunch of tax credits that had expired at the end of 2016 to expire in December 2017. I have no idea if this affects forms or just instructions and I'm guessing the IRS is still trying to figure that out as well. Here is a small list of some of the changes: [ https://www.accountingtoday.com/opinion/tax-aspects-of-the-bipartisan-budget... | https://www.accountingtoday.com/opinion/tax-aspects-of-the-bipartisan-budget... ] I know some people with solar projects that are waiting to redo their taxes because of it. I guess we'll have to wait and see what the IRS re-issues. Ryan Eby From: "Paul McCann via Michlib-l" < [ mailto:michlib-l@mcls.org | michlib-l@mcls.org ] > To: [ mailto:michlib-l@mcls.org | michlib-l@mcls.org ] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 1:02:12 PM Subject: Re: [Michlib-l] TFOP Alert: IRS Forms and Publications Update (133730X) Hi Jolee, We got the notice yesterday. I called our Representative's office and was told the tax law changes only affect the 2018 W-4 for withholding. The staffer said the forms for filing 2017 taxes are not affected. We had already been giving out forms for about a month when we got the letter (Notice 1437) yesterday, and had no way of contacting people who had already picked up forms. We're leaving our forms out, but will be considering whether we continue to distribute printed forms in future years. If any of this comes back to haunt us, we'll definitely default to providing access to and assistance with the IRS web site. Hope this helps, Paul Paul McCann Dexter District Library Library Director 3255 Alpine St. Phone: [ tel:(734)%20426-4477 | 734-426-4477 ] Dexter, MI 48130 Fax: [ tel:(734)%20426-1217 | 734-426-1217 ] [ http://www.dexter.lib.mi.us/ | www.dexter.lib.mi.us ] On 2/20/2018 4:08 PM, Hamlin,Jolee via Michlib-l wrote: BQ_BEGIN With the new notice from the IRS that there may be changes made to the federal forms because of the new tax law passed on Feb 9, AND the fact that the IRS will NOT be printing the forms to send to libraries, what are other library systems doing? Are you pulling the forms with signage and info, telling folks were to order when they are ready? Or….? Thanks for thoughts. Jolee Hamlin Senior Associate Director of Public Service Capital Area District Libraries -- Administration 401 S Capitol Ave Lansing MI 48933 [ tel:517-367-0810 | 517-367-0810 ] (external); ext. 1810 (internal) | [ mailto:hamlinj@cadl.org | hamlinj@cadl.org ] [ http://www.cadl.org/ | www.cadl.org ] | [ http://facebook.com/cadlibrary | facebook.com/cadlibrary ] | [ http://twitter.com/cadl | twitter.com/cadl ] _______________________________________________ Michlib-l mailing list [ mailto:Michlib-l@mcls.org | Michlib-l@mcls.org ] [ http://mail2.mcls.org/mailman/listinfo/michlib-l | http://mail2.mcls.org/mailman/listinfo/michlib-l ] _______________________________________________ Michlib-l mailing list [ mailto:Michlib-l@mcls.org | Michlib-l@mcls.org ] [ http://mail2.mcls.org/mailman/listinfo/michlib-l | http://mail2.mcls.org/mailman/listinfo/michlib-l ] _______________________________________________ Michlib-l mailing list [ mailto:Michlib-l@mcls.org | Michlib-l@mcls.org ] [ http://mail2.mcls.org/mailman/listinfo/michlib-l | http://mail2.mcls.org/mailman/listinfo/michlib-l ] BQ_END _______________________________________________ Michlib-l mailing list Michlib-l@mcls.org http://mail2.mcls.org/mailman/listinfo/michlib-l
Thanks Ryan...so much for "so simple, you can file on a postcard." :-) Paul McCann Dexter District Library Library Director 3255 Alpine St. Phone: 734-426-4477 Dexter, MI 48130 Fax: 734-426-1217 www.dexter.lib.mi.us On 2/21/2018 2:27 PM, Ryan Eby wrote:
Hi Paul,
Your rep was probably thinking about the tax cuts and jobs act of last year which affected withholding. The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 is much more of a mess because it retroactively extended a bunch of tax credits that had expired at the end of 2016 to expire in December 2017. I have no idea if this affects forms or just instructions and I'm guessing the IRS is still trying to figure that out as well.
Here is a small list of some of the changes:
https://www.accountingtoday.com/opinion/tax-aspects-of-the-bipartisan-budget...
I know some people with solar projects that are waiting to redo their taxes because of it. I guess we'll have to wait and see what the IRS re-issues.
Ryan Eby
------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From: *"Paul McCann via Michlib-l" <michlib-l@mcls.org> *To: *michlib-l@mcls.org *Sent: *Wednesday, February 21, 2018 1:02:12 PM *Subject: *Re: [Michlib-l] TFOP Alert: IRS Forms and Publications Update (133730X)
Hi Jolee,
We got the notice yesterday. I called our Representative's office and was told the tax law changes only affect the 2018 W-4 for withholding. The staffer said the forms for filing 2017 taxes are not affected. We had already been giving out forms for about a month when we got the letter (Notice 1437) yesterday, and had no way of contacting people who had already picked up forms. We're leaving our forms out, but will be considering whether we continue to distribute printed forms in future years. If any of this comes back to haunt us, we'll definitely default to providing access to and assistance with the IRS web site.
Hope this helps, Paul Paul McCann Dexter District Library Library Director 3255 Alpine St. Phone: 734-426-4477 Dexter, MI 48130 Fax: 734-426-1217 www.dexter.lib.mi.us On 2/20/2018 4:08 PM, Hamlin,Jolee via Michlib-l wrote:
With the new notice from the IRS that there may be changes made to the federal forms because of the new tax law passed on Feb 9, AND the fact that the IRS will NOT be printing the forms to send to libraries, what are other library systems doing? Are you pulling the forms with signage and info, telling folks were to order when they are ready? Or….? Thanks for thoughts.
Jolee Hamlin
Senior Associate Director of Public Service
Capital Area District Libraries -- Administration
401 S Capitol Ave
Lansing MI 48933
517-367-0810 <tel:517-367-0810> (external); ext. 1810 (internal) | hamlinj@cadl.org <mailto:hamlinj@cadl.org>
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