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September 1, 2016

Commercial Software Vendors Settle with Vermont over Tax Preparation Issues

The Vermont Department of Taxes is pleased to announce that Liberty Tax Service and Lamson Tech/1040NOW have made good faith contributions to the State of Vermont to remedy an extraordinary issue caused by unusually high error rates in some returns completed using their commercial tax preparation software.

July 5, 2016

Vermont Provides Relief to Taxpayers Affected by Software Errors

The Vermont Department of Taxes is pleased to announce that taxpayers whose 2015 returns were impacted by certain commercial vendor software issues (related to itemized deductions) will not be required to amend or pay any additional tax.

May 26, 2016

Fraud Alert: Phone Scam

Fraud Alert: Phone Scam

May 16, 2016

Vermont Department of Taxes Offers Help for Taxpayers Impacted by Commercial Software Errors

The Vermont Department of Taxes has learned of some errors in the coding of Vermont 2015 tax year personal income tax software impacting some taxpayers who itemized their deductions.

April 20, 2016

Fraud Alert: “Spoofing” Scam Targets Vermont

Fraud Alert: “Spoofing” Scam Targets Vermont

March 10, 2016

Tax Commissioner, Mayors Praise Free File Program - An Easy, No Cost Program

Press Release on Free File Briefing

January 19, 2016

Vermont Department of Taxes Implements New Measures to Prevent Fraud

Vermont Department of Taxes Implements New Measures to Prevent Fraud

December 1, 2015

Commissioner of Taxes Releases FY2017 Education Yield Letter

The Commissioner of Taxes has released forecasts related to education tax rates for the upcoming fiscal year, FY2017.

January 12, 2015

Vermont Department of Taxes to Publish Lists of Delinquent Taxpayers on Jan. 12

Vermont Department of Taxes to Publish Lists of Delinquent Taxpayers on Jan. 12

January 7, 2015

Tax Commissioner Peterson’s Statement on Amazon Action

Amazon has precipitously cut advertising contacts with Vermont online companies