June 12: Business Filers

ATTN: Software Developers, Return Transmitters and Authorized IRS e-file Providers/EROs. IRS e-Services Down for Scheduled Upgrade The e-Services online tool will be out of service beginning 8 p.m. EDT Friday, June 27 through 6:00 a.m. Monday, June 30, 2008 to upgrade critical software and perform required maintenance. During this period, the e-Services' Registration, Taxpayer Identification Number Matching, e-file Application, Transcript Delivery System, Disclosure Authorization, Electronic Account Resolution and Preparer Tax Identification functions will be unavailable to all users. IRS employees can provide transcript information from other systems, but we recommend that all users hold their requests until the system returns to full operation early Monday morning. If you have questions or need emergency transcript assistance during this brief outage, practitioners should contact the Practitioner Priority Service at 866-860-4259; Income Verification Express Service users should contact their regular Return and Income Verification Service unit contact at IRS.gov; and state-level users should contact their local Government Liaison representative. All others should contact the IRS Toll Free site at 1-800-TAX-1040. We selected this timeframe to minimize the impact on our users and apologize for any inconvenience this temporary outage may cause. 

June 13:  Individual Filers- TY 2008 Pub 1346 DRAFT Record Layout Changes

ATTN: Software Developers, Return Transmitters and Authorized IRS e-file Providers, Electronic Return Originators and Federal State Participants. Please be advised that Tax Year 2008 Publication 1346 DRAFT Record Layout changes #1 and #2 have not be uploaded to the Electronic Filing Bulletin Board or the IRS website due to technical difficulties. We will issue an updated message once the problems have been resolved. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. 

June 13: Individual Filers - TY 2008 Pub 1346 DRAFT Record Layout Changes

ATTN: Software Developers, Return Transmitters and Authorized IRS e-file Providers, Electronic Return Originators and Federal State Participants Please be advised that Tax Year 2008 Publication 1346 DRAFT Record Layout changes #1 and #2 have not been uploaded to the Electronic Filing Bulletin Board or the IRS website due to technical difficulties. We will issue an updated message once the problems have been resolved. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

June 16: TY2008 Publication 1346 DRAFT Record Layout Changes

ATTN: Software Developers, Return Transmitters and Authorized IRS e-file Providers/EROs. Please be advised that Tax Year 2008 Publication 1346 DRAFT Record Layout changes 1 and 2 have been posted to IRS gov.

However, we have been unable to upload the changes to the Electronic Filing Bulletin Board due to continuing technical difficulties. We apologize for any in convenience this may cause you.

June 16:  TY2008 Publication 1346 DRAFT Record Layout Changes 1 and 2

ATTN: Software Developers, Return Transmitters and Authorized IRS e-file Providers/EROs. Once the problem with the Electronic Filing Bulletin Board issue has been resolved, we will send an updated message to inform you that TY2008 Publication 1346 DRAFT Record Layout Changes 1 and 2 have been uploaded . Again, we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.

June 19: Electronic Management System Down Time - Memphis

ATTN: Software Developers, Return Transmitters and Authorized IRS e-file Providers/EROs. The Electronic Management System located at Memphis, Tennessee will be down for scheduled maintenance on Friday, June 19, 2008 from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. Central Time. Trading Partners will not be able to logon during this downtime. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
 
June 20: Individual Filers- TY 2008 Pub 1346 DRAFT Record Layout Changes

ATTN: Software Developers, Return Transmitters and Authorized IRS e-file Providers, Electronic Return Originators and Federal State Participants. Please be advised that Tax Year 2008 Publication 1346 DRAFT Record Layout changes #1 and #2 have been uploaded to the Electronic Filing Bulletin Board. 

June 26: Individual Filers - Publication 1346 DRAFT Record Layout changes #1 and #2 

ATTN: Software Developers, Return Transmitters and Authorized IRS e-file Providers, Electronic Return Originators and Federal State Participants. Please be advised that Tax Year 2008 Publication 1346 DRAFT Record Layout changes #1 and #2 have been uploaded to the Electronic Filing Bulletin Board.