What's new in 2019 for Pennsylvania?

Pennsylvania has made the following changes for the 2019 tax year:

1. Beginning with coupons for tax years beginning after Jan. 1, 2020, the department will no longer mail estimated coupon packets to taxpayers. The department notified taxpayers of this change via a mailing in early 2020. That mailing provided taxpayers with various options of where to go to print their own copies of the coupons or how to obtain copies of the coupons from the department.

Form Changes:

1. Taxpayers may now claim a Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) Tax Credit on a Married, Filing Jointly status filed tax return. The REAP tax credit claimed may also offset the taxpayer or spouse’s tax liability. 
2. A Qualified Subchapter S Trust (QSST) may pass through to its beneficiary an Educational Improvement or Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit passed through to the QSST from another pass-through entity.