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Missouri Electronic Tax Filing System Moving Slow

For the past six days, the website has experienced slowness, which is causing a delay in a confirmation receipt for tax filers.

If you filed your Missouri tax return electronically and haven’t received an electronic receipt for it, don’t worry, it’s OK, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article.

The electronic income tax filing system for the Missouri Department of Revenue has slowed down and, in return, filers are receiving late receipt confirmation messages from the state.

Per the Missouri Department of Revenue website: "Taxpayers can electronically file from a computer, or by using a tax preparer who is an approved Electronic Return Originator (ERO). The state return is transmitted to the IRS along with the federal return. When the federal return is accepted, an acknowledgment (electronic confirmation) is sent from the IRS. The IRS then transmits the state return information to the Department. When the state return is accepted, an acknowledgment is sent from the Department."

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Those planning to file electronically still can and do it confidently, Ted Farnen, Missouri Department of Revenue Communications Director, wrote in an email to Patch.

"Over the last six days, there has been a communication issue between the Internal Revenue Service’s MeFile system that has slowed down, BUT NOT STOPPED, the downloading of electronic returns," Farnen wrote. "The Department of Revenue’s staff has been on top of this glitch and they are making sure that the returns are being downloaded.  We can’t find anything wrong on the Department of Revenue’s side, and we have notified the IRS to see if they can determine what the problem is."

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As long as residents have filed by the midnight deadline tonight, they will not be penalized or charged interest for a late return, Farnen said.


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