The Alabama Department of Revenue is participating in the Fed/State 1120/1065 e-file project for the electronic filing of corporate and partnership income returns. This project is a joint effort of the IRS, numerous states, software vendors and other private businesses who have joined together under the umbrella of the Federation of Tax Administrators (FTA). Returns for the IRS and participating states can be transmitted to a single point (the IRS). The IRS will forward the Alabama returns to Alabama for processing. Alabama will return acknowledgements back to the IRS, where they can be picked up by transmitters.

TY 2007 Form 20C Corporate Income Tax Return, Form 20S S Corporation Information/Tax Return and Form 65 Partnership/Limited Liability Company Return of Income may be electronically filed using software of approved vendors. Please see TY 2007 Authorized Alabama Corporate Income Tax E-File Providers listed below.

The Department will support electronically filed Form PTE-C Nonresident Composite Payment Return and Form 20C-C Consolidated Corporate Income Tax Return next year.  New information will be posted to this site as it becomes available.

TY 2007 Authorized Alabama Corporate Income Tax E-file Providers: CS Professional Suite TaxWise CCH Drake 20C and 20S 20C and 20S 20C, 20S and 65 20C

The Fed/State program includes:

• State Super schema which pools all data elements from participating states
  
• State specific schemas draw from super schema pool of elements
  
• Web services hosted by IRS are used to transmit returns and retrieve acknowledgements
  
• Single point User Authentication will be provided by IRS
  
• Each return will be acknowledged separately
  
• Submissions and acknowledgements will be in XML format
  
• PDF attachments are supported
  
• The Federal and various state returns may be zipped together in a single submission

The Alabama program includes:

2008 - Forms 20C, 20S, 65, PTEC and most major supporting schedules (see 2008 documentation for details)

Corporations/Partnerships electing to electronically file must also pay the tax liability due with the return electronically.

Effective October 1, 2006, pursuant to Act No. 2006-552, payments of $750 or greater are required to be made electronically through EFT - Electronic Funds Transfer (2 methods EFT Debit, EFT Credit). Those taxpayers who do not meet the $750 requirement may voluntarily elect to pay through EFT or may pay by E-Check or Credit Card.

Links below provide information about this new process. To correctly view the schema and sample instance document you will need to use Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher. The spreadsheet below is in Excel. If you don't have the Microsoft Excel software, you can download a free viewer.

To learn more about the Alabama Corporate Electronic Filing Program, please select Corporate E-Filing under CONTACT US.

 

Updated last: December 2, 2008