Michigan 2011: Nonresident Earned Income Tax Credit
Updated: 2/21/2013
Article ID: SLN62471
Michigan nonresident taxpayers may be eligible to receive the Michigan Earned Income Tax Credit if they had taxable earned income in Michigan.
Certain customers, who were not Michigan residents and received the Michigan Earned Income Tax Credit, may have filed an incorrect Michigan tax return.
TurboTax has fixed this issue.
How to tell if you may be impacted
You may be affected if ALL of the following are true:
- You filed your 2011 Michigan tax return before May 24, 2012 AND
- You had an amount of $0 or a negative amount on your Michigan Form MI-1040, Line 16 AND
- You also had an amount on Line 28b of this Form MI-1040
If you are affected, you may have underpaid your Michigan tax. You may need to amend your Michigan tax return.
You can make the corrections yourself.
- To do it yourself, please follow these step-by-step instructions.
- After you make the changes to your tax return, you will need to mail a copy of your amended state return.
- Your printed return will include instructions on how and where to mail it.
- If you need assistance, call us at the phone number in the email.
Or let us do the work for you.
- Please download and print this Authorization Form.
- Complete the form and fax it to us at the number printed at the top of the form.
- A TurboTax representative will contact you (within 15 days) when your corrected return is ready to be securely emailed back to you.
- You can print, sign, and mail the corrected return to the state taxing authority.
If you need to contact us, please use the phone number in the email from TurboTax and tell the representative you’re calling about the Michigan 2011: Nonresident EITC.
