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The Indiana individual income tax return is electronically filed as part of the Federal/State Electronic Filing Program. All IRS requirements and procedures must be followed when developing the Indiana return. For the requirements and procedures of the federal program, please review:

To order these publications from the IRS, please contact:
Internal Revenue Service
Attn: Joe Newsom
Minton-Capehart Federal Building, Room 540
Stop 460
575 Pennsylvania Ave
Indianapolis, IN. 46204-1563
(317)685-7549 
joseph.d.newsom2@irs.gov

To participate in the Indiana Electronic Filing Program, a Software Developer must be accepted into the federal program. Contact the IRS for federal form 8633 if you have not already applied. There is no Indiana equivalent to the federal form 8633. To participate as a Software Developer in the Indiana Electronic Filing Program, you must work with the Department to develop and test your software. This includes testing of certain forms the software must produce. Please complete the Electronic Filing Program Registration form to register your interest with us and receive a user id and password to access Publications.

Only software packages certified by the Indiana Department of Revenue may be used to create and transmit Indiana returns. No company may advertise that a software package can be used for electronically filing Indiana returns until receiving written notice from the Department stating that their software has been certified for the current tax year.

The Department is currently participating in the Fed/State Electronic Filing programs under both the EMS (Electronic Management System) and MeF (Modernized e-File) platforms. The IRS plans to sunset the EMS platform at the end of Tax Year 2011 (October, 2012); therefore, the 2011 Tax Year (opening in January, 2012) will be the final year that the Department will support EMS. Any software vendor not currently supporting Indiana under the EMS platform is strongly discouraged from developing an Indiana program for the EMS platform at this late date in its life cycle. At this point, Indiana prefers that all new vendors develop for the MeF platform, only. Indiana no longer requires that all MeF vendors also be certified to file under EMS, although we are pleased to invite any existing vendor to become certified under both filing platforms. Software developers must register with the Department to indicate the platforms they will support under each of their products. The Department will then assign and send the developers a separate Software Developer Code for each platform they support within each of their products. Indiana recognizes that many software vendors do not have the resources to develop under both platforms simultaneously. Indiana will continue to accept MeF test submissions for as long as the IRS maintains the ATS System for Tax Year 2011 in order to permit as many vendors as possible to transition to MeF during the “off season”.

Indiana Publications

  • Publication IND 1345 - Handbook for Electronic Return Originators and Transmitters of Individual Income Tax Returns Tax Year 2011

Participating developers may go to the Developers' Corner. A password is required. The password will be given to each developer only after the Department has accepted them as a participating developer.

If you have questions regarding E-File software development or software testing, please e-mail the Department.

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