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The State of Arizona’s individual income tax filing season for tax year 2020 has opened. The deadline to file and pay is April 15.
The Arizona Department of Revenue (ADOR) encourages taxpayers to file electronically and have refunds direct deposited to help reduce errors and the potential for tax fraud. During the last tax filing season, about 90 percent of Arizona individual income tax returns were e-filed.
Taxpayers should be intentional when selecting their tax preparers this tax season, because they are ultimately responsible for what is filed, no matter who prepared the return.
Taxpayer responsibilities:
The Arizona Department of Revenue is delighted to expand its resources and webpages to assist contractors. The agency is continuously improving and innovating its websites to provide quick guidance to taxpayers.
Maricopa - On December 21, 2020, a state Grand Jury indicted Michelle Schaefer, a tax preparer and owner of MM Tax Solutions, on charges of Fraudulent Schemes and Artifices, four counts of Preparing False Tax Returns and four counts of Forgery for allegedly preparing Arizona personal income tax returns that contained fraudulent information for tax year 2018.
The Arizona Department of Revenue’s (ADOR) Unclaimed Property program has identified more than $45 million that belonged to over 159,000 people with last known addresses in Maricopa County reported last year.
The agency is seeking potential property owners and their families to attempt to return the funds. The largest property due to a single owner being over $596,000.
Website information and outreach team in place
The Arizona Department of Revenue is providing additional support to assist businesses in meeting their annual withholding filing obligations, due February 1, 2021, for the calendar year 2020 (Form A1-R, Form A1-APR, Form W-2, and Form 1099 attachments).
In the November 3, 2020 General Election, voters approved the Smart and Safe Arizona Act (Proposition 207), which the Secretary of State certified on November 30, 2020. With this approval, the Smart and Safe Arizona Act has become effective to govern the possession, sale, and taxation of adult use marijuana in Arizona.
Taxpayers receiving Form 1099-G, which serves as a confirmation of the previous year’s state tax refund, can now go online to access and print the form.
To be eligible for a Form 1099-G, a taxpayer must have itemized on their federal return and received an Arizona income tax refund.