**** TAX NOTICE ****
The Arizona Department of Revenue (ADOR) previously maintained a phone number specifically set up for transaction privilege tax questions: 1-844-698-9176.
This number is no longer in service, and inquiries should be directed to the following Customer Care phone numbers:
Customer Care: 602-255-3381
Toll-free from within Arizona: 1-800-352-4090
Office Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Due to periods of high call volumes during certain times of the year, please consider contacting the department on Thursdays or Fridays before noon or after 2 p.m.
The individual income tax filing season for state and federal returns opens on Monday, January 27, 2020 and the Arizona Department of Revenue (ADOR) is reminding taxpayers of some key changes when filing for 2019 tax year.
Arizona individual income tax returns for tax year 2019 will include the following adjustments:
Taxpayers can file now and schedule payments up until the deadline.
The Arizona Department of Revenue (ADOR) reminds transaction privilege tax filers that returns are due.
Avoid the worry and hassle of mailing your return by using AZTaxes.gov, which is available at night and weekends. Our online filing and paying service is free, fast and easy — allowing payments to be scheduled up until the second to last business day.
Arizona taxpayers have another option when filing and paying electronically on the state’s tax system.
The Arizona Department of Revenue (ADOR) has introduced self-service kiosks in both its Phoenix and Tucson locations. Kiosks are already available for use by taxpayers at the department’s East Valley office in Mesa.
House Bill 2757, passed during the 2019 Arizona legislative session, repealed the Arizona lottery subtraction. As a result, individual taxpayers may no longer subtract from their income the amount of prizes or winnings up to $5,000 in a single taxable year from any of the state lotteries.
The removal of the Arizona lottery subtraction applies retroactively to taxable years beginning from and after December 31, 2018.
Corporations are now able to electronically file their income taxes to the Arizona Department of Revenue (ADOR). The corporate e-file solution starts with 2019 income tax returns and includes partnership tax returns.
Under legislation that became law in 2017, businesses with an annual transaction privilege tax (TPT) and use tax liability of $5,000 or more during the prior calendar year will be required to file and pay electronically starting in February 2020 for the January reporting period.
The revised 2020 threshold of $5,000 is a change from the 2019 level of $10,000.
The Arizona Department of Revenue has reported for four consecutive fiscal years that no corporate taxpayers have claimed the income tax credit for employment by a healthy forest enterprise, agricultural pollution control equipment and donation of a school site.
Pursuant to A.R.S. § 43-224, for taxable years 2020 and after, corporate taxpayers will no longer be eligible for a corporate income tax credit for:
Taxpayers can file now and schedule payments up until the deadline.
The Arizona Department of Revenue (ADOR) reminds transaction privilege tax filers that returns are due.
Avoid the worry and hassle of mailing your return by using AZTaxes.gov, which is available at night and weekends. Our online filing and paying service is free, fast and easy — allowing payments to be scheduled up until the second to last business day.
Thousands of businesses will have an electronic filing option for their Arizona income taxes starting next month, which will provide a more convenient way of filing their tax returns.
The Arizona Department of Revenue (ADOR) has completed final system testing to begin accepting tax year 2019 corporate and partnership e-filed returns in early January. The department also has worked with more than a dozen software vendors to have their systems in place for companies.
As a follow-up to an information bulletin from last month, the Arizona Department of Revenue (ADOR) is prompting businesses to renew their TPT licenses, which are due January 1, 2020.
TPT licenses are valid for one calendar year, from January 1 through December 31. Licenses renewed within the calendar year must still be renewed at the start of the following calendar year.
