My NJ State Return was rejected; the reason is NJ Pension updated its tax law to follow the federal guidelines for corona virus-related distributions. Now I have to file for an extension since Intuit Turbo Tax won't have the update until May 20th. TurboTax didn't provide any instructions to help filing an extension with New Jersey. I tried to file an extension which requires an 80% tax payment for the extension to be approved. The estimated payment is $2700 so I entered 80% of this amount. If payment isn't received the extension will be denied. I tried entering the 80% of the estimated payment, using different cards and all failed. New Jersey doesn't have actual instructions for filing an extension but after some digging I found New Jersey requires 80% of the total tax due (Line 44 of form 1040). Even though there is over $4000 already withheld, I have to pay over $5600 to submit the extension request. So I go back into the New Jersey Division of Taxation to submit an extension again. After entering my personal information, I receive a message “You have already submitted an Extension request on 5/16/2021". I didn't receive any confirmation of the extension request via email nor was I given a request number. Now I might be stuck paying a penalty if I'm not able to rectify this situation by tomorrow, 5/17/2021. Why didn't Turbo Tax notify New Jersey taxpayers of this before submitting the NJ tax forms? I think Turbo Tax handled this whole matter horribly.
These updates for the NJ State tax form should have been in the system before the filing date. Thank you TurboTax for all the extra work and penalty I may be hit with.
